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THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


THE METROPOLIS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA 

A SKETCH OF THE 


HISTORY, INSTITUTIONS AND INDUSTRIES 


OF THE 


CHEAPEST FUEL CITY IN THE WORLD 



BY 

GEORGE H. JOHNSON, C. E., Sc.D. 


Assisted by THOMAS J. DUFFY, City Editor of the Scranton Tribune 


NEW YORK 

CAPITALIST PUBLISHING COMPANY 


1904 




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THE LIBRARY OF 
CONGRESS, 

Two Co pres Received 

JAN. 27 1904 

Copyright Entry 
CLASS XXa. No. 
COPY A. 


COPYRIGHT, 1904, 

BY 

THE CAPITALIST PUBLISHING CO. 

C 0 M r ;h( 

Inipedaer 

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PREFACE 


This very brief review of the history and present condi¬ 
tion of the City of Scranton, with a statement of its indus¬ 
trial and commercial advantages, makes no claim to com¬ 
pleteness; nor does it make any claim to being in propor¬ 
tion. For the evident lack of proportion there are several 
reasons. Some of the information diligently sought by the 
author seemed to be inaccessible. The business men of 
Scranton are so busy in making history and in making 
money that they have no time and little inclination to con 
records of the past or to make records of the present. 
Executive and business ability seem sometimes to be in¬ 
compatible with literary, statistical and historical appre¬ 
ciation. In the case of some very successful corporations 
the officers evidently felt that the publication of any facts 
about their business would be injudicious as tending to 
attract competition, or perhaps criticism from their patrons 
on the ground of excessive earnings as indicated by the 
growth of the business and capital. 

Special effort has been made by the author to bring all 
the data up to date, and to verify the statistics. 


It will be noticed that biographical matter, which is so 
prominent in many local histories, has been entirely omit¬ 
ted from these pages. Some other subjects that have been 
well covered in other books on Scranton have also been in¬ 
tentionally omitted here; the design of the present work 
being to include topics of timely but permanent and gen¬ 
eral interest—preference being always given to matter 
heretofore unpublished or not easily accessible. 

The authorities chiefly consulted have been the reports 
of public institutions, the United States Census and other 
Federal and Pennsylvania State reports, the reports of the 
Board of Trade, the files of Scranton daily newspapers and 
Dr. Hollister’s History of the Lackawanna Valley. 

I am personally indebted to Mr. C. S. Seamans, secretary 
of the Board of Trade, and Mr. Thomas J. Duffy, city 
editor of The Scranton Tribune, for advice and assistance. 

The illustrations of the book were not selected by the 
author—which accounts for any lack of correspondence 
between them and the text. 

GEORGE H. JOHNSON. 


Office of The Capitalist Publishing Co. 

New York, N. Y. 

December 7th, 1903. 


Erratum 


Page 28, column 2, line 7, for Lackawanna read Lackawaxen. 



CONTENTS 


PAGE 


PREFACE. 6 

A FEW FACTS ABOUT THE CITY OF SCRANTON. 7 


HISTORY. 9 

COAL AND CULM.. 17 

CITY GOVERNMENT.19 

United States and County Buildings.21 

Scranton Public Library.21 

The Public Schools.22 

The Hillside Home.22 

RAILROADS.23 

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western.23 

Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley.25 

Delaware and Hudson Canal Co.28 

New York, Lake Erie and Western.31 

Central Railroad of New Jersey.31 

BANKING.32 

REAL ESTATE. .38 

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.. 40 

International Correspondence Schools.40 

Mount St. Mary's Seminary..41 

School of the Lackawanna.44 

Pennsylvania Oral School for the Deaf.44 

Scranton Conservatory of Music.45 

PHILANTHROPIC AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS.45 

Young Men’s Christian Association.45 

Young Women’s Christian Association.52 

Home for the Friendless.52 

Florence Crittenton Mission.53 

HOTELS.54 

INDEX. 


PAGE 

HOSPITALS. 54 

Lackawanna State Hospital.54 

Moses Taylor Hospital.55 

Scranton Private Hospital.56 

Hahnemann Hospital.59 

CHURCHES.60 

First Methodist Episcopal.60 

First Presbyterian.60 

St. Luke’s Protestant Episcopal.61 

PERIODICALS ... •• .62 

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES. 65 

Dickson Manufacturing Co., Allis-Chalmers Co. and 

American Locomotive Co.67 

Scranton Forging Co.71 

Finch Manufacturing Co.71 

Scranton Stove Works. 72 

Scranton Brass Works.72 

Van Dyke Piano Manufacturing Co.75 

S. G. Barker & Son.75 

Dickson Mill and Grain Co.76 

Pennsylvania Central Brewing Co.76 

A. R. Gould & Sons.77 

The Silk Industry.78 

Scranton Lace Curtain Co.81 

Lackawanna Mills.81 

Scranton Yarn and Finishing Co.82 

Other New Industries.82 

WHOLESALE AND JOBBING BUSINESS.84 

PUBLIC SERVICE INSTITUTIONS AND CORPORATIONS .... .86 
Thirteenth Regiment Infantry. 86 

Scranton Gas and Water Co.88 

Scranton Railway Co.90 

.101 

..102 


INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS 
































































A FEW FACTS ABOUT THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


In 1837 there were only two dwellings within the limits 
of what has since become the City of Scranton, namely, 
tne home ot Barton Mott, the miller, and the historic house 
of the elder Slocums. 

In 1856 the village had 3,000 inhabitants and was incor¬ 
porated as a borough. 

In 1866 the town had 20,000 inhabitants and was incor¬ 
porated as a third-class city. 

In 1901 the city had 105,000 inhabitants and became a 
Pennsylvania city of the second class. 

In November, 1903, the population, by careful estimates, 
had reached 116,000 within city limits, 300,000 within 30 
minutes’ trolley ride, and 400,000 within 20 miles of the 
City Hall. 

The Court House is in latitude 41d. 24m. 29s. N. and longi¬ 
tude 79d. 39m. 47s. W. from Greenwich, at an altitude 745 
feet above sea level. It is 145 miles from New York City, 
160 miles from Philadelphia and 317 miles from Pittsburg. 

The area of the present city is 12,333 acres. 


Length of traveled streets and avenues.....149 miles. 

Length of paved streets. 21 miles. 

Length of courts and places. 36 miles. 

Length of sewers. 75 miles. 


The streets are lighted by 781 arc lights. 

There are 50 miles of street railway within the city 
limits and about the same connected mileage outside the 
limits. 

There are five steam railroads that enter the city, viz.: 
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, main line; Delaware 
and Hudson; Central Railroad of New Jersey; Erie and 
Wyoming Valley; New York, Ontario and Western. 

There is also one steam and electric railroad, viz.: the 
Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley. 

There is a daily water supply from mountain lakes of 
35.000,000 gallons. 

There are 40 public school buildings valued at $1,864,- 
000 and 12 annexes. 

There are 82 churches of many denominations. 

There are 13 banks in the Scranton Clearing House As¬ 
sociation. They have a combined capital of $2,500,000, sur¬ 
plus of $3,500,000 and deposits of $30,000,000. The clear¬ 
ings for 1902 amounted to $72,832,180.87, and for the first 
ten months of 1903, to $87,647,782.11. 

The Postoffice receipts show a large increase every year 
for the past ten years. For the fiscal year ending June 


30, 1S93, the receipts were: $82,716.80; for 1898, $142,- 
865.96; for 1903, $261,863.85. The current year also shows 
a large increase. 

There are 140 incorporated manufacturing establish¬ 
ments with a capital actually invested of $30,000,000. 

There are 30 anthracite coal mines within the city lim¬ 
its and the city is headquarters for 58 coal mining com¬ 
panies. 

Lying on the dumps within the city limits are many 
millions of tons of the cheapest steam fuel in the world, 
culm being only 15 to 25 cents per ton, and buckwheat 
and birdseye coal $1.25 per ton. 

There are 15 iron foundries in the city. 

There are 28 periodicals. 

There are 20 academies and schools for special training. 

There is a well-equipped free public library with four 
branches. 

The business directory of the city shows, among many 


other classifications: 

Architects .10 

Artists .11 

Boots and shoes, wholesale. 6 

Building and Loan associations.15 

Building material dealers.17 

Car wheel manufacturers. 3 

Coal mining companies.48 

Coal and land companies. 6 

Contractors and builders.75 

Dry goods, wholesale. 7 

Electric light, heat and power companies.10 

Engineers, civil and mining.20 

Flour, feed and grain, wholesale.'.12 

Grocers, wholesale.11 

Land companies.20 

Lumber dealers, wholesale.17 

Meat dealers, wholesale. 8 

Mining companies.11 

Paint manufacturers. 7 

Planipg mills. 9 

Real estate agents and brokers. 37 

Silk manufacturers. 9 


The Board of Trade, composed of the leading business 
men of the city, is a very active organization, oc upying 
a building which cost $100,000. Through this organiza¬ 
tion, it is not difficult to interest local capital in the pro¬ 
motion of any new and meritorious industry mat comes 
to Scranton. 

The city is one of the most salubrious in the country, 
the annual death rate, 1900-1902. being only seventeen per 
thousand. 





























Board of Trade 


Building. 







THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


THE METROPOLIS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA 


With the great economic gifts of nature, coal, iron, gas, 
oil and timber, the State of Pennsylvania is endowed be¬ 
yond any other State in the Union. While the natural gas 
and oil are found only in the western part of the state the 
anthracite coal is found only in the eastern part. This 
unequalled treasure of hard coal occurs in three narrow 
valleys—in the most northern of which lies the beautiful 
City of Scranton, the metropolis of northeastern Pennsyl¬ 
vania. It is known the world over as the City of Anthra¬ 
cite. It is true that the whole city is undermined, and the 
wealth thus obtained by her citizens has been invested in 
splendid public and private improvements. But it is also 
true that Scranton would hold her place as the third city 
of the commonwealth, and a very prosperous manufactur¬ 
ing and commercial city, if all the coal mines of the valley 
should be flooded and permanently closed. 

Scranton has always owed her prosperity to the energy 
and business ability of her citizens. The unique natural 
wealth of the valley has been utilized to the best advan¬ 
tage. The town was made first by iron, then by coal, and 
later by the various industries that consume coal; but first 
and last it has always been her own citizens who have 
used the gifts of nature for the blessing of the whole coun¬ 
try, and who in the utilization have reaped a harvest of a 
hundred-fold. 

The United States Census of 1900 reports the value of 
manufactured products in the State of Pennsylvania that 
year to have been over five hundred million dollars greater 
than in the year 1890—and this increase was greater than 
that of any other State in the Union. A further examina¬ 
tion of the detailed statistics shows that Scranton has been 
gaining on the other large cities of the country as a manu¬ 
facturing community, and in 1900 she stood No. 51 in the 
gross value of manufactured products. 

The story of the rapid development of the Lackawanna 
Valley with its metropolis is one of fascinating interest. 
From aboriginal times to the present day the history stirs 
the blood of those who are ambitious to do and to achieve. 

A Bit of Old History. 

The word Lackawanna is a corruption of the Indian 
Lee-ha-ugh-anna; lee-ha signifying the forks and hanna the 
stream. Hence the name for the locality of the meeting of 
two rivers. The name was first applied by the Delaware 
Indians to the locality at the mouth of the Lackawanna, 


but later it was used as the name of the river. To geolo¬ 
gists and antiquarians the valley of the Lackawanna is one 
of the most interesting regions in America. Rich beds of 
coal and iron and evidences of glacial action for the one, 
and rare Indian relics for the other make the ground of 
the valley a fascinating subject of study. 

Dr. H. Hollister, author of the History of the Lackawanna 
Valley, made a valuable collection of Indian relics found In 
the valley. This collection is still in Scranton in the pos¬ 
session of Mrs. Hollister. Hon. Steuben Jenkins of Wyo¬ 
ming also made a valuable collection of such relics. Dr. 
Hollister was authority for the statement that no less than 
seven Indian villages were located on the east bank of the 
Lackawanna River. The Flats, one of these sites, is now 
built up with great factories for the production of iron 
castings, silk goods, pianos, lace curtains and beer, as well 
as coal breakers, culm piles and railroad tracks connect¬ 
ing the various factories with the markets of the world. 

A hundred years ago the whole valley was a wilderness 
tracked by Indian paths and visited occasionally by hardy 
pioneers; to-day it is crowded by industry and commerce. 

The first white settler in what is now Scranton was 
Philip Abbott, a native of Connecticut. He tramped through 
the wilderness in 1778 and settled in a romantic spot he 
called “Deep Hollow” on the bank of Roaring Brook. He 
fled after the Wyoming Massacre of the same year, but re¬ 
turned to the Hollow in 1786 where he built a log cabin and 
primitive grist-mill or corn-cracker. Thus he established 
and operated the first industry of the future manufacturing 
metropolis. Near the mouth of the Lackawanna River there 
were then small settlements of whites—a hardy remnant of 
those who suffered the savage butchery of the Wyoming 
Massacre, and who after fleeing from those terrible scenes 
had later returned to win from bountiful nature the liveli¬ 
hood and perchance the wealth she had to bestow. The 
paths of the wilderness were doubtless often traveled by 
scouts and hunters who tramped their Way from the settle¬ 
ments of the Wyoming Valley to the Connecticut colony 
from whence many of the early settlers of\this part of 
Pennsylvania had come as early as 1762. Even at that time 
it is quite possible that the Abbotts considered themselves 
fortunate in being on the line of through travel between 
the settlements. But for eleven years Philip Abbott, his 
brother James, and the few who accompanied them, were 



THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


JO 



Municipal Building, Washington Ave. 


mantic name are associated many of the early traditions of 
the Lackawanna Valley. That appellation is still frequently 
used, and is not taken as a term of reproach even when it 
assumes the personal and uneuphonicus form of Slocum 
Hollowite. The Slocums established a saw-mill and a distil¬ 
lery; and the next year they added to the nascent indus¬ 
tries a forge for working the iron they found outcropping 
along the Brook. This pioneer forge was used until 1828, 
and was one step toward the great development that was 
to follow. 

Clark tells us in his History of the Lackawanna and 
Wyoming valleys that Ebenezer Slocum prophesied that 
"the Hollow would be a great city some day, and he longed 
to have the privilege of seeing it fifty years after he was 
laid in the grave.” But with all the energy and enthusi¬ 
asm of its founders it took Slocum Hollow forty years to 
grow to a population of one hundred. 

In 1836 a box of iron ore carried by Joseph J. Albright 
to Northampton County was the means of attracting the 
attention of William Henry. Henry then prospected Lack¬ 
awanna Valley and finally succeeded in interesting George 
Scranton and others in its great resources. In 1840 these 
gentlemen together with Selden T. Scranton. Sanford 
Grant and Philip H. Mattes, formed the nucleus of the 
Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company. The construction 
of an iron furnace was immediately begun, and the indus¬ 
trial development of the village was fairly started. Five 
years later the population had increased to five hundred, 
and in 1853 it had reached three thousand. January 27th, 



Lackawanna County Court House, Washington Ave. 


alone in tneir occupancy of the attractive site on Roaring 
Brook. In 1797 they sold out to John Hone. Then in 1799 
came the Slocum brothers, Ebenezer and Benjamin, whose 
sister Frances Slocum was the Indian captive whose experi¬ 
ence is historic. The Slocums bought out John Hone and 
named the settlement "Slocum Hollow,” and with this unro- 


1851, the name of the village, which had been Slocum 
Hollow from 1799 to 1848, and then Scrantonia, was chang¬ 
ed to Scranton. The town was named after Colonel George 
W. Scranton whose energy and genius as a business man 
were impressed upon every enterprise in which he became 
interested. He was born in Madison, Connecticut, May 


















THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


11 



Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, Court House Square. 


Scranton became the successful manager of the iron fur¬ 
nace at Oxford, New Jersey. It was the next year that 
he formed, with his associates, the iron company which at 
once commenced work on the site of the present city of 
Scranton. August 20th, 1840, titles were taken to a large 
t:act of land, which was afterward increased by the pur¬ 
chase of four thousand acres. Slocum Hollow then com¬ 
prised five dwelling houses, a school house, a cooper shop, 
a saw-mill and a grist-mill. In 1841 the new iron furnaces 
were ready for operation, but it was not until 1842 that 
the first successful blast was made. Anthracite coal was 
used experimentally in this blast, and the result was most 
encouraging to those who had invested so extensively in 
the iron and coal of the valley. The next problem was to 
find a market for their product. There was then no rail¬ 
road in the region, and it was very expensive to haul either 
coal or iron to a railroad, canal or navigable river. The 
Erie Railroad was in process of construction, being laid 
with iron rails made in England. In 1844 the Lackawanna 
Iron and Coal Company built a rolling mill, and then 
Colonel Scranton secured a contract to furnish the Erie 
Railroad with several thousand tons of rails. These 
Scranton-made rails were the first that had been rolled in 
this country. The successful execution of this contract 
was the beginning of the prosperity of the company and 
of the town; it was also very advantageous to the railroad 
company for thereby the road was completed in time to 
save for itself the millions of dollars granted by the State 
of New York. All the rails were hauled fifty miles by 
wagon to reach the railroad. It was the energy of the 
pioneers of Scranton that overcame such difficulties, and 



Armory 13th Regiment National Guard of Pennsylvania. 
Adams Avenue. 


23rd, 1811, being the eldest of seven children and the 
lineal descendant of John Scranton who emigrated from 
England and was one of the original settlers of the New 
Haven colony. When only twenty-eight years old George 


to the same quality is due the extraordinary and contin¬ 
uous growth of the city. 

A few years later Colonel Scranton became inter* Red 
in the construction of the Delaware. Lackawanna and 














THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


l’l 


Western Railroad, of which the City of Scranton has al¬ 
ways been the real center. The beginning of this railroad 
was in 1850, and from that time its interests have been 
largely identified with the City of Scranton. In later years 
came the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, the Central 


been called the Western city of the East, in consequence 
of the tireless energy of its citizens. Among the fathers 
of the future city whose names are most prominent in her 
industrial and commercial history were Scranton, Platt, 
Archbald, Albright, Mattes and Manness. 


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Railroad of New Jersey, the Erie and Wyoming Valley, 
and then the New York, Ontario and Western by means 
of the Ontario, Carbondale and Scranton Railroad. All of 
these roads contributed to and shared in the wonderful 


development of the Lackawanna Valley and Scranton in 
particular. The city has never experienced a “boom/’ but 
from the time of the incorporation of the borough, Febru¬ 
ary 14th, 1856, it has enjoyed a continuous growth. It has 


In 1866 Scranton was incorporated as a city, and during 
the decade 1860-1870 the population increased from 9,223 
to 35,092. 

The year after the City of Scranton was chartered the 


Scranton Board of Trade was organized, and four years 
later it was chartered. This organization has always been 
active in promoting the industrial, financial and commer¬ 
cial interests of the community. At the present time it 



Scranton High School, Washington Ave. and Vine St. 




























THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


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has a membership composed of over two. hundred of the 
most prominent business men of the city, and twelve 
standing committees. 


The political history of the Lackawanna Valley, which 
centers in Scranton has been characterized by the same 
active, aggressive spirit that is always manifest in her 
industrial enterprises. The first settlers of northeastern 
Pennsylvania came over from Connecticut and founded 
the county of Westmoreland, and then the legislature of 
Connecticut promptly passed a law giving the new county 
equal representation in their body. After the bitter con¬ 
troversy between Connecticut and Pennsylvania was set¬ 
tled, in 1786, Luzerne county comprised what we now know 
as Luzerne, Lackawanna,, Susquehanna. Wyoming, Colum¬ 
bia and Lycoming counties, with portions of Bradford, Sul¬ 
livan and Montour. The separation of Lackawanna from 
Luzerne county, April 17th, 1878, was the result of a long 
continued and strenuous agitation by Scranton citizens 
who found it exceedingly burdensome to be obliged to go 
to another city to transact their county business. Time 
after time the bill was defeated. in the legislature at Har¬ 
risburg, because strong interests were opposed to the divi¬ 
sion. The Lackawanna county business is now transactrd 
in the beautiful Court House where three judges preside 
in the civil and criminal courts and one judge in the 
orphans’ court. 

In 1895 the legislature created a new appellate court, 
called the Superior Court, and Scranton was named as 
one of the cities in which it would meet. This court sits 
every January in the Lackawanna County Court House, 
and brings a great deal of business from out of the city. 

A campaign had been carried on for a quarter of a cen¬ 
tury in Congress to secure the formation of a new Federal 
district for eastern Pennsylvania. Several years ago this 
was brought to a successful conclusion through the efforts 
of Hon. William Connell—the Scranton representative. 
The Middle Federal district of Pennsylvania was thus 


created with headquarters in Scranton. President Mc¬ 
Kinley thereupon appointed as the judge of the new court 
Hon. R. W. Archbald of Scranton, who for years had been 



Colonel E. H. Ripple, Postmaster. 



Government Building. Postoffice and U. S. Court House. 



















14 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


the president judge, of the courts of Lackawanna county. 
The Federal court room is on the second floor of the Gov¬ 
ernment building. 

Scranton is also the headquarters of the internal revenue 
district of northeastern Pennsylvania. 

It is a difficult undertaking to try to name in one sen- 


ration will be equal to any task and responsibility that 
they may be called upon to meet.” 

Scranton occupies a valley and also a succession of 
gently-rolling hills, the most important of which is Hyde 
Park Hill from whose summit a beautiful view is obtained. 
Topographically the streets of the city may be described as 



Hotel Jermyn, Wyoming Ave. and Spruce St. 


t:nce the principal attractions of a city like Scranton. 
Several years ago President J. A. Lansing of the Board of 
Trade said: “We have unsurpassed railroad facilities, 
more abundant water supply, the brightest and clearest 


everywhere undulating but nowhere steep. The elevation 
of the Court House above the sea is 745 feet. 

The city is surrounded by mountains two thousand feet 
high, and it enjoys the great advantages of an invigorat- 


l 



The Country Club, Scranton, Pa. 


sunlight, the best school houses, the smallest debt, the 
lowest tax rate on actual valuation, and everything that 
goes to make up a delightful town to live in of any city of 
100,000 inhabitants in this land, and the men of this gene- 


ing atmosphere, pure water and perfect drainage. The 
temperature seldom goes above ninety degrees in sum¬ 
mer, or below zero in winter. Pulmonary troubles are not 
indigenous. On the hillside a few miles from Scranton 
















THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


15 


may be seen a cluster of tents where consumptives from a 
distance have come to live. “And they are being cured 
too,” the physician remarked who pointed them out to 
the writer. 

The residence streets of the city are well paved with 


great ice cap was along the southern boundary of Luzerne 
county, and Lackawanna was covered with drift and “till,” 
At Scranton the striae on the rocks indicate that the 
course of the movement was south 53 degrees west. A 
glacial terrace lies nearly one hundred feet above the river, 



Residence of Colonel L. A. Watres, Elmhurst Boulevard. Built by Peter Stlpp. 


asphalt and lined on either side with trees and beautiful and below Scranton two terraces are seen with sharp 
homes. The fine drives up and down the valley and across escarpments which were formed by the cutting action of 
the hills to nearby summer resorts and lakes are particu- the river. Pot holes in rocks, formed by stones revolving 
larly appreciated by people of leisure. Nay Aug Park, under the impulse of glacial currents, are found just north 
through which Roaring Brook leaps down over the roman- of Scranton. North and northwest of Scranton the coun- 



George F. Reynolds’ 

tic falls, is a delightful and popular resort. Within less 
than an hour’s ride of Scranton are a number of mountain 
lakes of glacial origin which attract many visitors and 
cottagers during the summer. 

The varied topography of the Lackawanna Valley is 
largely due to glacial action. The terminal moraine of the 


Suburban Property. 

try is broken and diversified. It is a labyrinth of hills 
and connecting valleys of the Devonian and Silurian ag j, 
and all covered with a mantel of giaciai anrt. Twenty 
miles northeast of Scranton are the Twin Elk Hi ns, reach¬ 
ing twenty seven hundred feet above the sea, and showing 
striae to their very summits. This indicates that at Scran- 





16 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


ton the ice cap was not much less than half a mile in 
thickness. 

Geographically Scranton is situated upon the highlands 
of northeastern Pennsylvania in the northern anthracite 
coal region, about 150 miles from New York City and Phi- 


ed by prosperous towns that are tributary to it. Its situa¬ 
tion is evidently more advantageous than that of most 
other cities of its size in the United States. Moreover, as 
the headquarters and shipping point of the Lackawanna 
Valley coal mining companies Scranton has a unique and 



Residence of Charles Schlager, Esq. 


ladelphia and 317 miles from Pittsburg. It is not in com¬ 
petition with these older and larger cities, but it is near 
enough to them to be easy of access, and to effect the in¬ 
terchange of coal and other heavy products in the inexpen- 


very great advantage over cities with which it is other¬ 
wise comparable. And this advantage is two-fold. First, 
the work of mining, preparing for market, hauling and 
shipping the coal is necessarily done from here, and this 



Interior of Residence of Charles Schlager, Esq. 


sive haul of a single night. Its location therefore affords 
unusual commercial advantages for an inland city, besides 
being admirably situated as the metropolis of the Lacka¬ 
wanna and Wyoming valleys—being completely surround- 


makes in itself enough business to support a prosperous 
city. Second, the cheap fuel attracts many manufactur¬ 
ers who save enough on power alone to enable them to 
pay dividends while competing plants, less favorably 













THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


17 


located, are obliged to close their works or operate at a 
loss. 

The valley of the Lackawanna is about thirty-five miles 
in length from north to south, and is really an extension 
of the beautiful valley of Wyoming. Scranton is situated 
on the banks of the Lackawanna River near the center of 
this region which is known as the northern anthracite 
coal field. The area of the field is 198 square miles. Eleven 
coal measures are found here aggregating from thirty to 


commercial value of that kind of coal. In 1830, however, 
owing to the opening of Eastern markets through the ope¬ 
ration of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, the annual pro¬ 
duction of the northern field reached 43,000 tons. Fifty 
years later it was 1,141,927 tons; and in 1902, as stated 
before, it was 10,985,649 tons. According to William Grif¬ 
fith, M. E., the average increase in the demand for anthra¬ 
cite coal in this country since the civil war has been one 
and one-fifth million tons per annum. 



Residence of F. W. Gerecke, Esq, 


fifty feet in thickness. The yield of the five measures gen¬ 
erally worked averages about six thousand tons per acre. 
The total amount of coal in Lackawanna and Wyoming 
counties, called the Wyoming region, has been officially 
estimated at 5,700,000,000 tons, of which 1,670,733,552 tons 
had been mined previous to 1902, leaving 4,029,266,448 tons 
to be mined. Lackawanna county is divided into the first 
and second coal inspection districts. The production of 
the first district for the year 1902 was 4,932,924 tons, and 
the number of employees was 18,490. The production of 
the second district for the same year was 6,052 725 tons, 
and the number of employees 18,229. The increase in the 
production has been rapid. In 1820 the use of hard coal 
was still experimental. Many people, hearing that the 
“black stones” would burn had tried them as fuel without 
success, and there resulted a general incredulity as to the 


Culm. 

When anthracite coal was first sent to market, indeed 
as late as 1853, it was always in large lumps just as it 
came from the mine; and the consumer had to break the 
lumps into smaller pieces to fit his fire-place the best way 
he could. 

In 1852 the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail¬ 
road introduced a machine at their Scranton mine to break 
the coal into convenient sizes, and the next year they in¬ 
stalled a steam-power coal breaker at their Diamond mines. 
Some years later a breaker was erected at the mines of 
the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, and then it 
was generally used throughout the anthracite region. The 
convenience of coal in its familiar commercial form has 
been gained by wasting from twenty to thirty per cent, of 
the coal. This waste material, which is crushed and pul- 





























18 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


verized coal, accumulates in immense quantities at every 
breaker. In some localities around Scranton these culm 
piles are the principal feature of the landscape. The mate¬ 
rial is often piled up to a height of about one hundred feet 
and for several hundred feet in length. A small railroad is 
built up the side of the artificial hill and on this the cars 


sold on the dump to Scranton manufacturers for fifteen; or 
twenty-five cents per ton. 

In 1885. Dr. H. Hollister, the historian of the Lackawanna 
Valley, wrote: 

“This appalling amount of waste is a total loss to coal 
territory, to all companies engaged in its production, and 



People’s Coal Co. r Tenth St. 


loaded with waste are pulled up by a cable and emptied at 
the top of the mound. These black pyramids, all formed 
from the purest coal, represent a tremendous waste. Some 
of the piles contain more than a million tons, and yet a 
few years ago they were worth less than the ground on 


to the world at large. Before half of the coal owned' by 
companies in the valley is mined, the culm piles,, which 
already smother villages and cities along the Lackawanna, 
will close up the valley with ground coal, and obliberate- 
the fair vale from the sight of coming generations,. Wilhim 



People’s Coal Co. Retail Depot. 


which they rested. Consequently anybody could have the 
culm without money and without price. Recently, since it 
has been demonstrated that this material, so long rejected, 
makes good steaming fuel when properly used, it has been 


the anthracite coal area lies sufficient culm to pay the 
national debt if it could be utilized with judgment and 
economy. Within a radius of three miles of the Scranton 
court-house are two hundred and fifty boilers where steam 







THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


19 


is generated exclusively from culm. The manufacturers 
save at least $25,000 each month in this manner. Still, in 
spite of this, 6,000 tons of the purest coal are wasted every 
day in the year, and thousands of tons accumulated in 
culm dumps.” 

Although the local demand for culm is increasing every 
year, which has a tendency to raise the price, and the per¬ 
centage of waste has been largely decreased, yet it must 
be many years before consumption gains on production, or 
makes any great diminution in the accumulations of half a 
century. 

Some boiler plants, for example the power house of the 
Scranton Street Railway Company, have been located 
adjacent to culm piles, and the material is carried directly 
into the fire boxes, which are provided with McClave 
grates made in Scranton especially for this fuel. 


elective bodies called the Select Council and the Common 
Council. 

The executive government of the city is carried- on 
through a City Recorder and nine departments, established 
by ordinance approved March 7th, 1901. These depart¬ 
ments are as follows, namely: Public Safety, Public 
Works, Collector of Delinquent Taxes, Assessors, City 
Treasurer, City Controller, Law, Charities and Correction, 
and Sinking Fund Commission. 

The salary of the City Recorder is fixed by said ordinance 
at $3,000 per annum, and he is required to give a surety 
bond in the sum of $25,000 for the faithful performance 
of his duties. 

The salaries of the directors of the departments of Pub¬ 
lic Safety and Public Works are $2,500 each. The salary 
of the members of the Board of Assessors is $1,500 each 



Residence of J. J. Williams, Esq. 


THE Cl T 1 GOVERN MEM AND ITS 
INSTITUTIONS. 

Scranton was incorporated as a city of the second class 
in 1901. Under the previous incorporation of 1866 the city 
was made up of Providence, Hyde Park and Scranton 
boroughs and Providence township. Subsequently portions 
of Dunmore and Lackawanna townships were annexed. 
The legislation of the City of Scranton is enacted by two 


per annum; of the City Treasurer $4,000, and of the City 
Controller and City Solicitor $2,500 each per annum. The 
Director of the Department of Public Safety is also 
Director of the Department of Public Charities and Correc¬ 
tion—the salary of the latter office being included in the 
salary of the former. The salary of the members of the 
Sinking Fund Commission is $50 each per annum. The 
heads of the departments of Public Safety, Public Works, 

























20 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


and of Law, and also the City Controller, are required to 
give surety bonds in the sum of $10,000 each, and the City 
Treasurer in the sum of $80,000, and each member of the 
Board of Assessors and of the Sinking Fund Commission 
in the sum of $1,000, conditioned for the faithful perform¬ 
ance of their several duties. These bonds are paid for by 
the city. 

The Superintendent of Police is apnointed by the Direct- 


Public Safety. The Chief of the Bureau of Fire is required 
to furnish a surety company bond in the sum of $5,000 to 
secure the faithful performance of his duties. The Bureau 
of Engineering, the Bureau of Highways and Sewers, and 
the Board of Park Commissioners are attached to the De¬ 
partment of Public Works. The head of the Bureau of 
Engineering is known as the Chief Engineer. He must 
be a civil engineer of at least five years’ practical experi- 



Residence of Dr. J. L. Wentz. 


or of the Department of Public Safety, by and with the 
advice and consent of the Select Council. The police force 
consists of one captain, four lieutenants, three desk ser¬ 
geants and forty-six patrolmen. 

The Bureau of Health and the Bureau of Fire, as well 
as the Building Inspector and Plumbing Inspector, are 
under the control of the Director of the Department of 


ence. He receives a salary of $2,000, and is required to 
furnish a surety bond in the sum of $3,000. The head of 
the Bureau of Highways and Sewers is known as the Su¬ 
perintendent of Highways and Sewers. He receives a 
salary of $1,500, and is required to furnish a suiety bond 
in the sum of $2,000. 

The principal officers of the city, 1903, are: Mayor, Alex- 




























































THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


•J1 


ander T. Connell; City Treasurer, F. S. Barker; City Con¬ 
troller, P. W. Costello. 

United States and County Buildings. 

The United States courthouse and postoffice building 
was erected in 1892 at a cost of about $250,000. It is 
located at the corner of Washington avenue and Linden 
street. The building is a three-story one, one hundred 
feet square, and constructed of light gray granite. 

The rapid growth of business in the Scranton Postoffice 
soon exhausted the enlarged accomodations thus provided. 
The removal of a part of the work to the West Scranton 


dated February 24th, 1890, the donors being the heirs of 
Joseph J. Albright and Elizabeth Albright. The convey¬ 
ance to the city was subject to several conditions which 
were accepted by the municipality in an ordinance of April 
5th, 1890. The trustees named in the first deed were Wil¬ 
liam T. Smith, Henry Belin, Jr., and Alfred Hand, and 
these trustees, April 5th, 1890, conveyed the property to 
the City of Scranton. Under this deed of conveyance the 
library is managed and controlled by a board consisting of 
sixteen trustees, of whom the mayor is an ex-offici'o mem¬ 
ber; nine are nominated by the mayor, three are appointed 



Residence of Dr. J. L. 

office afforded considerable relief, but again there was 
urgent need of more room. An addition to the building is 
now being built at a cost of about $90,000. 

The Court House is a large and imposing structure, built 
of native mountain stone. It stands in the centre of a 
beautiful square in the midst of many maple trees; on 
corners of the square stand the monuifients of George 
Washington and Columbus and near the centre a handsome 
monument erected to the memory of the brave soldiers 
and sailors who served in the civil war. 

The Scranton Public Library. Albright Memorial Building. 

The City of Scranton has a beautiful free public library 
building centrally located on North Washington avenue 
between the City Hall and the High School. The site was 
presented to trustees for the city by deed of conveyance 


Wentz. Interior of Hall. 

by the Board of Trade and three by the presiding judge 
of the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County. 

In 1892 the library building thus provided for was finish¬ 
ed and opened to public use. The building is beautiful 
and appropriate in design, very substantial in construction 
and artistic in every detail. It would be an ornament to 
any city. The property, exclusive of books, furniture and 
equipment is appraised at $160,000. The catalog contains 
over sixty thousand cards, to which number between five 
and six thousand are added yearly. In the Reference De¬ 
partment and Reading Room are kept on open shelves sev¬ 
eral thousand standard works of reference, and the regular 
issues of twenty-seven weekly, one hundred and eight 
monthly and ten quarterly publications. The library has 
four branches in suburban districts. 

The officers of the library are Hon. Alfred Hand, presi- 




























THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


oo 


dent; James Arehbald, vice-president; Henry Belin, Jr., 
treasurer, and Henry J. Carr, secretary and librarian. 

The Public Schools. 

The citizens of Scranton are justly proud of their fine 
system of public schools. The new High School building 
is a handsome edifice which is worthy to stand first among 
the forty substantial public school buildings of the city. 


The Hillside Farm. 

This is the euphonious name by which Sc-rantonians 
speak of their model almshouses. In 1862 the Scranton 
Poor District purchased a farm, now known by this name, 
about nine miles from the city. In 1878 a new poorhouse 
was built thereon. It is a substantial brick building 50 by 
100 feet, and four stories in height. It is heated by steam, 
and each floor is supplied with hot and cold water. It 



A Bit of Scenery on 

These forty buildings are appraised at $1,864,000. Although 
new school houses are being constantly built, the authori¬ 
ties have found it impossible to thus increase the accom¬ 
modations as fast as the enrollment increases; and conse- 


the D. L. & W. R. R. 

accommodates two hundred and fifty inmates. 

Other buildings have since been erected. In 1882 a 
building for the insane was completed at a cost of $40- 
000. In 1888-89 two additions were made to this building 



Passenger Locomotive, D. L. & W. R. R. 


quently twelve "annex” buildings are now used for such 
additional accommodations. These "annexes” are usually 
rented, and they are chosen in localities that will be most 
convenient for the scholars. During the past three years 
the enrollment has increased from 16,192 to 18,286. 


at a cost of $60,000. The buildings are supplied with 
water from an artesian well four hundred feet deep sunk 
in 1883 at a cost of $3,500. Among the other 
buildings is a beautiful conservatory erected at a 
cost of $15,000. 








THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


• 2:5 


RAILROAD AND TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. 

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. 

This popular trunk line, now one of the most important 
in the East, originated in a very humble way, and its evo¬ 
lution makes an interesting historical study. 

As early as 1819 Henry W. Drinker, being impressed 
with the value of the coal deposits of the Lackawanna 
valley, conceived the idea of a railroad to be operated by 
horse power and hydraulic power, connecting the Sus¬ 
quehanna River, through the Lackawanna valley, with the 
Delaware Water Gap. Such a route was actually explored 
by Mr. Drinker, but no instrumental survey was made 
until 1830. in 1826, however, Mr. Drinker secured from 


the present name adopted. Since then, from time to time, 
more than a dozen other connecting railroads have been 
acquired, until now the system includes 947 miles of track. 

This sketch of the beginning of the Delaware, Lacka¬ 
wanna and Western Railroad, explains in part why Scran¬ 
ton has always been so important on this system. Another 
reason, less sentimental, but more weighty, is the fact 
that this railroad company acquired immensely valuable 
coal properties in and about Scranton, and from the opera¬ 
tion of these mines great revenues are received. But 
apart from these considerations, the natural growth of 
Scranton, its commanding position as the metropolis of 
Northeastern Pennsylvania, and the heavy tonnage at this 
point required for its handling very extensive and con¬ 
stantly increasing facilities. Early in its history this 



Car Shops ard Yard, D. L. & W. R. R. 


the Pennsylvania Legislature a charter for the “Susque¬ 
hanna and Delaware Canal and Railroad Company,” and 
five years later the survey, mainly coincident with the 
present southern division of the Delaware, Lackawanna 
and Western Railroad, was made by Ephraim Beach. A 
company was organized to promote the construction of 
the road, but the capital could not be obtained. About 
the same time Thomas Meredith was trying to raise capi¬ 
tal for his “Lackawanna and Susquehanna Railroad” to 
connect Great Bend with Providence—which is now a 
part of Scranton. 

In 1847 Col. George Scranton became interested in these 
projects and proposed a locomotive railway. After over¬ 
coming many difficulties, what is now known as the 
northern division of the Delaware, Lackawanna and West¬ 
ern Railroad was built, and opened to traffic in October, 
1851, under the name of the Lackawanna and Western 
Railroad. The company was consolidated March 11. 1853, 
with the Delaware and Cobb’s Gap Railroad Company, and 


company built shops in Scranton for the repair of cars 
and locomotives. In 1854 these shops consisted of one 
brick building on Washington avenue, in the form of an 
E, the main part being two hundred and ten by seventy- 
five feet, and the two wings being each two hundred by 
fifty-five feet. The next year foundry and engine houses 
were erected. In 1860 another shop was erected, one 
hundred feet square. In 1862, 1865 and 1866 other exten¬ 
sive shops were located here. Improvements and exten¬ 
sions in these shops have continued up to the present time. 

The New Shops. 

About 1901 the increasing traffic of the road made such 
urgent demands for increased switching facilities and 
yard accommodations, that the removal of the old shops 
was seen to be imperative. An extensive tract of land 
about two miles north of the City Hall was graded and 
laid out to accommodate the new shops—whose erection 
is now being pushed as rapidly as practicable. These 
shops when completed will be one of the largest and finest 














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THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


plants of the kind in the country. The total cost of the 
improvements will be about one million dollars. The pro¬ 
perty is 4,500 feet long by 1,400 feet in width. Twelve 
hundred feet at the rear of the yard is reserved for the 
storage of material. On a line across the yard are six 
buildings as follows: 

A mill, 90 by 400 feet, with concrete floor, steel trusses, 
Blacksmith shop, 80 by 300 feet, steel trusses and no posts. 


above described will hold 150 cars. 

A tunnel from the power house carries the steam pipes 
for heating, water pipes, compressed air pipes and elec¬ 
tric wires lor light and power. Electric power will be 
used for all the heavy machinery and compressed air for 
the rest. ' All the electricity used will be of an alternating 
current. The power house will have two 300-kilowatt 
generators and one 100-kilowatt generator. 



Finch Manufacturing Company. Eighth and West Linden Sts. 


Machine shop, 80 by 180 feet, in the form of L. Power 
house, 50 by 180 feet, with chimney 175 feet high. Store¬ 
house, with office on second floor, 44 by 105 feet. I umber 
shed. 

Two hundred feet in front of these shops, and separated 
from them by a street, are located two repair shops, 150 
by 400 feet each. These shops will accommodate 96 cars. 
The shops are alike except that one has an electric trolley 
crane for lifting steel cars. 

One hundred feet in front of the repair shop is the paint 
shop, 60 by 400 feet, which accommodates 30 cars. An¬ 
other building, 20 by 300 feet, is for storing and painting 
furniture. 

North of the repair shops is the yard for holding the 
cars undergoing light repairs. It accommodates 130 cars. 
The storage yard just outside and south of the grounds 


The mill will have 61 wood-working machines run by 26 
motors, aggregating 120 H. P. The buildings will be lighted 
have 15 machines run by 15 motors. 

The machine shop will have 49 machines run by 13 
motors, aggregating 120 H. P. The building will be lighted 
with 220 arc lights, having attached the General Electric 
Company’s concentrated light diffusers. The grounds will 
be lighted all night by 30 arc lights. 

The boiler plant has a capacity of 938 H. P. It is ex¬ 
pected to use 550 H. P. in summer and 850 H. P. in winter, 
including heating and lighting. 

The buildings are wholly of steel and vitrified brick. 
They are connected by about ten miles of railroad track 
inside the grounds, also dolly tracks and turntables of 
22-inch gauge. 

These new shops will repair all the freight cars, about 
















THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


25 


27,000 in number, used by the Delaware, Lackawanna and 
Western Railroad—except only grain cars which are re¬ 
paired in a small shop in Buffalo. 

After the plant is in full operation it is expected to use 
the new shops also for car building. The number of em¬ 
ployees here is estimated at 800, with a probable increase 
to 900 or 1,000. 

The Laurel Line. 

This is the familiar name given to the new Lackawanna 
and Wyoming Valley Railroad which is being constructed 
from Carbondale, seventeen miles north of Scranton, to 


This road, in which Scranton has reason to take much 
pride, is itself a strong re-enforcement of her claim to the 
sobriquet of “electric city.” 

The two counties through which the road extends have 
a population of half a million people. These two counties, 
formerly one county, constitute socially an urban district, 
and geologically they include one of the richest anthracite 
coal regions of America. Scranton is the metropolis of 
this rich region whose wealth of black diamonds extends 
from border to border. The valley has always been united 
in interests and industries, and between the many pros- 



Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley R. R. (Laurel Line) Looking Toward Power Station and Car House at Scranton. 


Wilkesbarre, twenty miles south of “the electric city.” 
Seventeen miles of the road south of Scranton are already 
in operation, and the line will be operated to Wilkesbarre 
about December 20,1903. This road is built in the first-class 
style of a steam railroad, but is operated by electric power 
for its passenger service, with the best equipment to be 
found anywhere for this purpose. The plant and its in¬ 
stallation, in which the Westinghouse Electric Manufac¬ 
turing Company is largely interested, has some mechanical 
features not to be found anywhere else. To this extent 
the plant is experimental, and well deserving of study by 
all electric railway engineers. But as an operating road it 
has already demonstrated its success; and judging from 
the patronage the road is receiving, even before its ter¬ 
minal is reached, it will be a notable financial success. 


perous towns therein and the central city of Scranton 
there is a rapidly growing commercial and social inter¬ 
course. The half dozen trunk lines of railroad that enter 
the valley are all chiefly coal-carrying roads, and their 
passenger departments give the best accommodation to 
the heavy through business. While Scranton owes an 
incalculable debt to these old railroads that have connected 
her mines with the markets of the world in every direc¬ 
tion, yet it is true that the development of the local com¬ 
merce of the valley, of which Scranton must always be 
the centre, has not been particularly favored by the trunk 
lines, and there is plenty of such local business to be de¬ 
veloped by the Laurel Line without any appreciable diver¬ 
sion of traffic from the older railroads. In other words, 
the half million people in the valley who naturally prefer 


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THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


to trade in their own metropolis will be provided with 
exceptional facilities for doing so. and the wholesale and 
retail trade of Scranton will be more benefitted by the 
Laurel Line than by any of the older lines. That the new 
line is to be compared with the steam railroads ra;her 


lor passenger service. The running rails are of 90-pounds 
section laid on ties embedded in broken limestone ballast 
having a minimum depth under the ties of six inches. The 
right of way has been enclosed its full length with a neat 
galvanized wire fence. In the crossing of wagon and 



Bird’s Eye View of Scranton Terminals (Laurel Lire). 


than with the electric street railways is evident from the 
following brief description of it: 

The Laurel Line was located between terminals pre¬ 
viously chosen in as direct a line as practicable to accom¬ 
modate intermediate towns. The right of way was pur- 


steam roads, and in the crossing of streams many steel 
bridges were built, all of them being supported on con¬ 
crete abutments of the most solid character. 

The rolling stock is also first-class in construction and 
specially designed for this road. The passenger cars are 



chased for the entire distance, the location being made 
with few curves and generally light grades. The double¬ 
track permanent way was constructed for the operation of 
the heaviest locomotives and freight cars, and at the same 
time laid with the electric third rail of 75-pounds section 


designed to accommodate sixty-two passengers. A wooden 
and glass partition forms a separate compartment for 
smokers. 

The ride from Scranton to Wilkesbarre on this route 
is really delightful, and if the traveler is interested in 


























THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


either geology, engineering or natural scenery, he will 
want to take the trip more than once for the sake o:' 
observation. 

Leaving the Scranton terminal by the cut-off the road 
skirts the rocky gorge at the bottom of which, 150 feet 


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The principal station buildings of the company, as well 
as the great power house well deserve description. Suffice 
to say, however, that the Scranton station of the Laurel 
Line, which is located at the foot of one of the principal 
avenues of the city, is an elegant and convenient build- 



inside View of Scranton Station (Laurel Line). 


below, Roaring Brook winds its way toward the Lacka¬ 
wanna River. As the road rises several beautiful views 
of Scranton and the surrounding hills are obtained. After 
descending the hill the road runs by easy grades througn 
a beautiful section of country with scenery varied from 


ing. As a work of architecture it would be pleasing in 
any locality, and so it may well be cited as a rare ex¬ 
ample of a railroad station. The terminal property of the 
Wyoming and Lackawanna Valley Railroad, on which the 
station is located, is an extensive tf-act of ninety-eight 



Pittston Station (Laurel Line). 


rugged hills with outcropping veins to rural meadows. The 
old planes of the Pennsylvania Coal Company’s gravity 
railroad can be seen from time to time paralleling the 
road. The many culm piles and coal breakers along the 
line are a novel sight to visitors from other sections of the 
country. 


acres, bought from the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Com¬ 
pany, and situated just south of Lackawanna avenue— 
which is the dividing line between the north and south 
parts of the city. 

The other principal buildings on the ground, so far 
erected, are the freight station, the power house and the 































28 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


car house and repair shop. These buildings not being 
limited in size by the encroachment of any others, are 
designed not only for the present but for future develop¬ 
ment. In style of architecture the buildings may be de¬ 
scribed as an adaptation of the Tudor-Gothic type. 


acres of coal land in Luzerne County Mr. Wurtz, assisted by 
Mr. Noble, built rafts upon Wallenpaupeck Creek, and upon 
these rafts the coal which had been hauled by ox teams 
from his mines was taken as far as Wilsonville Falls, 
where the stream narrows and leaps over three successive 



The Emanuel and Lee Ballast Co. The Scranton Plant F 

I 

•I 

Delaware and Hudson Canal Company. 

The Delaware & Hudson Canal Company had its origin 
in 1812 in a project of William Wurtz to provide means for 
the transportation of anthracite coal from the Lackawanna 
Valley to the eastern markets. The war with England in 


rnishing Ballast for Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley R. R. 

ledges of fifty feet each. Around these falls the coal was 
carried in wagons to the Lackawanna River, there loaded 
into arks and so carried to the Delaware River and Phila¬ 
delphia. 

The Philadelphians, however, could not succeed in making 



The Emanuel & Lee Ballast Co. Meadowbrook Crushing Plant. 


that year cut off the supply of English coal and created an 
active demand for substitutes. But it cost fourteen dollars 
a ton to carry coal from the Lehigh region, whereas the 
best coal lands in the Lackawanna region could be bought 
for three dollars an acre. After buying several thousand 


the “black stones” burn, and so this experimental cargo 
was used for paving. 

Failing during the next ten years to get any market for 
their coal in Philadelphia the Wurtz brothers turned their 
attention to New York City and formed the project of a 





THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


•29 


canal to carry their coal from the Delaware River to the 
Hudson River. This project developed into the Delaware 
and Hudson Canal. Owing to the energy and enthusiasm 
of the Wurtz brothers the authorized capital of the new 
company, $1,500,000, was fully subscribed as soon as the 


built of timber, laid lengthwise, with rolled iron plates 
screwed to the timbers. 

From the Morning Courier and New York Examiner, of 
June 12, 1829, the following extract is made: “Locomotive 
Engines.—We yesterday attended the first exhibition of a 



Stone Crusher. Plant and Quarries of John R. Lee. 


books were opened early in January, 1825. 

The next year the canal was begun and two years later 
it was completed. The route of the canal follows a valley 
through which at some remote period the waters of the 
Delaware emptied into the Hudson. 


locomotive engine called ‘The Lion,’ imported by the Dela¬ 
ware & Hudson Canal Company, to be used upon their 
railway. On Wednesday (the 10th,) the engine just im¬ 
ported was tried and gave such general satisfaction that 
the present exhibition was unanimously attended by gentle- 



Quarries of Peter Stipp, 327 Washington Ave. 


The next undertaking in the development of the coal 
route was the construction of a railread from the mines at 
Carbondale, twenty miles north of Scranton, to the end of 
the canal, fifteen miles distant. This primitive road was 


men of science and particular intelligence. The engine 
was put up in Mr. Kimball’s manufactory by Horatio Allen, 
Esq., who went to England to purchase it for the company, 
and it gives us great satisfaction to say that t.ie most im- 






THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


30 

portant improvements which have lately been made in the 
construction of their engine originated with him. It is 
nine-horse power, having a boiler sixteen and a half feet 
long, with two cylinders each of three foot stroke. It is 
calculated to propel from sixty to eighty tons at five miles 
per hour. The power is applied to each wheel at about 
twelve inches from the center, and the adhesive power of 


dale and used with a stationary engine. The boiler was in 
use for many years. In 1883 it was exhibited in Chicago 
at the Exposition of Railway Appliances where it was 
identified by Horatio Allen who ran it upon its first trip. 
In 1890, the owners, Lindsay and Early of Carbondale, 
presented it with some other parts of the old engine to 
the National Museum in Washington. 


First National 


Bank, 334 Lackawanna Ave, 



the wheel arising from the weight of the engine will give 
locomotion to the whole structure.” 

The first trip by this engine, and the first trip by any 
locomotive in the United States, was made August 8, 1829. 
This trial trip, without cars, was entirely successful; but 
it was soon found that the road was too slightly built to 
carry such a “heavy” engine with a train of coal cars, and 
consequently “The Lion” was retired to a shanty and al¬ 
lowed to go to pieces. It remained thus some fourteen 
or fifteen years, when the boiler was removed to Carbon- 


After the failure of the “Stourbridge Lion” to do its 
work inclined planes were resorted to which were operated 
by gravity and mules. Indeed, the gravity system was not 
superseded by steam until 1899. 

The history of this railroad contains many interesting 
incidents, but suffice to say in this connection that the 
road was extended to the vicinity of Scranton in 1860, and 
that since then the operations of the company have been 
closely identified with the growth and prosperity of the 
anthracite metropolis. 




















THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


31 


New York, Lake Erie and Western. 

This road reaches Scranton over the tracks of the Erie 
and Wyoming Valley Railroad Company. 

The latter road was organized in 1882. The total length 
of the road and its branches is only 75 miles, but it forms 


of the community who gave it their patronage in a sub¬ 
stantial way. Certainly Scranton has been very prosper¬ 
ous since the Central gave it this new outlet to Eastern 
markets, and apparently the excellent service provided 
by this road to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash- 



First National Bank. Interior Main Floor. 


an important connecting link between the other trunk 
lines, and itself connects many of the coal mines in the 
vicinity of Scranton with both the Susquehanna and Dela¬ 
ware rivers. 


ington, etc., has resulted in a beneficial competition which 
has kept all the roads entering the city at a high standard. 
The Centra! route takes the traveller through valleys full 
of economic interest and natural beauty. It is one of 



First National Bank. Interior View. 


The Central Railroad of New Jersey. 

This favorite road of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 
which is now a part of the Reading system, was con¬ 
structed into Scranton in May, 1888. Its advent to the 
^Electric City was at once appreciated by the business men 


the scenic routes of the East. The products of mines, 
manufactories and farms constitute the eastbound freight 
and in such large tonnage that steadily increasing capacity 
has been required. The road-bed is double-tracked, stone 
ballasted and fully protected by block signals. 



















































32 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


FINANCIAL INTERESTS: BANKING AND 
REAL ESTATE. 

The volume of business and the prosperity of the bank¬ 
ing institutions of any community are justly regarded as 
indexes of the commercial prosperity of the community 
at large. A br'^.f survey of the history of banking in 


Sanderson & Company was opened. In August, 1873, the 
business was incorporated as the Lackawanna Valley 
Bank, with a paid-up capital of $83,500. 

The First National Bank. 

For over forty years this bank has been the leading 
financial institution of northeastern Pennsylvania. Or- 



First National Bank. Interior View. 


Scranton, including the present condition of the thirteen 
institutions now members of the Scranton Clearing House, 
-is therefore an essential part of any review of the indus¬ 
tries and commerce of the city. 

The first bank opened in Scranton was a private enter- 


ganized May 30, 1863, under the original Bank Act of that 
year, and among the first to take advantage of its privi¬ 
leges, it has held its charter for twice the allotted statu¬ 
tory period, and has now entered on its third score of 
years. 



First National Bank. Interior View. 


prise started May 10, 1855, by Mason. Meylert & Company 
at the corner of Wyoming avenue and Center street. Five 
years later they erected a substantial building afterward 
occupied by the Scranton Savings Bank. 

In November, 1855, the private banking house of George 


The success of such an institution is made up of oppor¬ 
tunity and good management, and the First National has 
had the combined benefit of both, testifying at once to the 
business strength of the community in which it has been 
located, and to the remarkable financial sagacity of those 



















































THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


who have had it in charge. When it took its place 
in the business world Scranton was a borough of 10,000 
inhabitants, and Providence and Hyde Park adjoining, 
which now unite to form the city, had about 10,000 more. 
Six times that number make up the present population. 


3 

holders to the amount of nearly $2,000,000. The average 
dividend rate has been 22 per cent. The present dividend 
rate is 50 per cent. Beginning with average deposits of 
$132,000 the first year, it now has $9,000,000, a growth that 
is really phenomenal. 



First National Bank. Directors’ Room. 


but although a dozen other banks have been organized 
to share the business, the old First has grown faster than 
the population. To its original capital of $200,000, it has 
added a surplus of $1,500,000, with undivided profits of 


During its two score years it passed unscathed through 
the panic of 1873, the era of tight money following the 
Grant & Ward failure of 1884, and the very serious strin¬ 
gency in 1893 when so many of the banks of the country 



Merchants and Mechanics Bank, 119 Spruce St. Main Floor. 


over $200,000. On “The Financier’s” Roll of Honor of 
National banks, this bank stands third in the United States 
and first in Pennsylvania. At the same time it has paid 
liberal and constantly increasing dividends to its stock- 


went down. For many years it had the record of not 
having lost a dollar by bad debts or otherwise, and it is 

. t' 

a significant fact in its history that it has never had a 
director who failed, nor one w'ho was compelled to with- 










































THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


:S4 



Merchants and Mechanics Bank, 119 Spruce St. 


draw from the board because of financial difficulty. From 
almost the start the affairs of the bank have been in the 
hands of Mr. James A. Linen, first as cashier and then 
as president, and it stands now as a monument to his abil¬ 
ity and fidelity. The vice-president is George L. Dickson 
and the cashier Isaac Post. 

Other Banking Institutions. 

The Scranton Savings Bank was incorporated February 
26, 1867. In 1876 the paid-up capital was increased to 
$100,000. This bank does a regular deposit, discount and 
collection business. Indeed, the state banks of Pennsyl¬ 
vania quite commonly combine the functions of a savings 
bank with those of a commercial bank—the depositor 
choosing in which department he will open an account. 
This bank has deposits of over $2,000,000 and a surplus 
and undivided profits of $315,000. The officers are S. B. 
Price, president; A. B. Blair, vice-president; H. C. Shafer, 
cashier. 

The Merchants and Mechanics Bank was organized Au¬ 
gust 6, 1870. In 1873 the paid-up capital was increased to 
$250,000. The latest statement shows surplus, $250,000; 
undivided profits, $68,000, and deposits, $1,700,000. 

The first president of this bank was Hon. John Handley. 


The present officers are: James J. Williams, president: 
A. J. Casey, vice-president; Charles W. Gunster. cashier. 
Mr. Gunster is also secretary of the Scranton Clearing 
House Association. 

The Third National Bank was organized March 1, 1872. 
A commodious building was erected by the bank and oc¬ 
cupied November 1, 1877. Though the early life of this 
institution was tried by the panic of 1873 and the hard 
times that followed that year, yet the prosperity and 
growth of the bank has been continuous. In 1889 the 
growing business required important changes in the bank¬ 
ing rooms. February 5, 1892, the bank’s charter was 
renewed for the second term of twenty years! 

The capital of the Third National Bank is $200,000; its 
surplus and undivided profits $691,540, and its deposits 
over $3,000,000. 

This bank stands No. 32 on “The Financier’s” Roll of 
Honor of National banks in the United States, and No. 
11 on the Roll of the State of Pennsylvania. The officers 
of the bank are: William Connell, president; Henry Belin, 
Jr., vice-president; William H. Peck, cashier. 

The Lackawanna Trust and Safe Deposit Company was 
organized in May, 1887, with a capital of $250,000. The 



Merchants and Mechanics Bank. Interior View. 





















THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


safety deposit vaults of this institution being an important 
pari of the bank’s business. The surplus and undivided 
profits amount to $214,770 and the deposits reach about 
$1,400,000. The present officers are: J. B. Dimmick, presi- 


in 1890 with a capital of $100,000. The business is di¬ 
vided into the two departments, commercial and savings. 
The surplus and undivided profits amount to $175,480, and 
the deposits are about $1,700,000. The officers are: C. 



Merchants and Mechanics Bank. View of Interior. 


dent; John AV. Fowler, vice-president; F. Hummler. treas¬ 
urer. 

The Traders National Bank commenced business Janu¬ 
ary 2, 1890, with a capital of $250,000. The surplus and 


DuPont Breck, president; R. G. Brooks, vice-president; 
H. C. Dunham, cashier. 

The West Side Bank, which has borne its present name 
since 1890, is an outgrowth of the Mechanics and Miner* 



Merchants and Mechanics Bank. Directors’ Room. 


undivided profits amount to $170,000 and the deposits are 
about $2,000,000. The officers are: John T. Porter, presi¬ 
dent; J. Jermyn, vice-president; F. W. Wollerton, cashier. 
The Dime Deposit and Discount Bank was incorporated 


Cooperative Loan Association of Scranton, which wa* 
organized December 11, 1873, of which George Sanderson 
was the first president. The business of this bank al»o 
Is divided into the two departments, commercial and sav 





















THE CITY OF SCRANTON 



Traders Bank, Wyoming and Spruce Sts. 


Scranton Savings Bank, 120 Wyoming Ave. 



Traders Bank. Interior View. 































THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


ings. The original capital of $30,000 has been increased 
to $75,000 and the surplus and undivided profits amount 
to $27,460. The deposits are about $700,000. The officers 
are: W. T. Davis, president; R. G. Brooks, vice-president; 
A. B. Eynon, cashier. 

The County Savings Bank and Trust Company was or¬ 
ganized in 1898 with a capital of $100,000. The present; 
surplus is $150,000 and the deposits $1,750,000. The offi¬ 
cers are: L. A. Watres, president; O. S. Johnson, vice- 
president; A. H. Christy, cashier. 

The People's Bank was organized in 1901 with a capital 
of $100,000. The present surplus is $33,000 and the de¬ 
posits about $360,000. The officers are: Cyrus D. Jones, 
president; G. F. Reynolds, vice-president; Henry M. Ives, 
cashier. 

The North Scranton Bank was organized in 19ul with 
a capital of $50,000. The present surplus is $5,000 and 
the deposits about $180,000. The officers are: Thomas 
R. Brooks, president; J. R. Atherton, vice-president; T. 
M. Symonds, cashier. 

The Title Guarantee and Trust Company is the third 
banking institution that was organized in Scranton in 1901. 
It started with a capital of $750,000. The present surplus 
is $305,000 and the deposits $1,000,000. The officers are: 
L. A. Watres, president; H. A. Knapp, vice-president; 
Frank Phillips, treasurer. 

The Sou,th Side Bank is the youngest banking institution 
in Scranton. It w r as started in 1902 with a capital of 
$60,000. The officers were: Conrad Schroeder, president; 
Stephen S. Spruks, vice-president; F. J. Helriegel, cashier. 

That the increase in the number of banks in Scranton 


4 



Dime Deposit and Discount Bank, 
Wyoming and Spruce Sts. 



Dime Deposit and Discount Bank. Entrance. 


during the past five years from eight to thirteen was 
warranted by the commercial conditions of the city is 
indicated not only by the prosperity of the new institutions 
and the increasing growth of the older ones, but also by 


the increasing amount of clearings. During the first ten 
months of 1903 the clearings amounted to $87,647,782.11, 
being an increase of about $15,000,000 over the total clear¬ 
ings of the preceding year. 































THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


38 


Real Estate. 

Centrally located real estate in Scranton has had a 
really wonderful advance in value during the past fifty 
years. Indeed, it is not thirty years since a swamp occu¬ 
pied what is now the choicest business section of the city. 


number of new houses for rent. Assurance of this demand 
is given by W. T. Hackett, Charles Schlager and other 
real estate agents. New construction has not kept pace 
with the increasing population. During the past year 
strikes have prevailed in the building trades which have 



Dime Deposit and Discount Bank. Tellers’ Department. 


The Court House, postoffice, St. Luke’s Church and many 
other expensive buildings stand on this redeemed swamp 
whose present value, exclusive of improvements, is about 
one thousand dollars a front foot. 

The City of Scranton, however, extends over many hills. 


greatly affected new construction. Under these circum¬ 
stances permits issued by the Bureau of Building Inspec¬ 
tion have generally amounted to somewhere between on* 
hundred thousand and two hundred thousand dollars a 
month. 



Dime Deposit and Discount Bank. Cashier’s Department. 


and is well provided with rapid transit to the extent of 
forty miles of track within the city limits. Consequently 
good sites for residences can be bought at a low price. 
There is an excellent demand from tenants for residences, 
and one of *he immediate needs of Scranton is a large 


Regarding manufacturing sites in Scranton and its sub¬ 
urbs, it may be said that an unlimited number remain to 
be taken. Choice locations are still to be had abutting on 
railroads, river and culm piles. Scranton lots are gen¬ 
erally sold exclusive c f mining rights, the latter having 





































THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


been long since disposed of to the great coal mining com¬ 
panies. A large part of the city is undermined more or 
less completely, at different levels from ten feet to two 
thousand feet below the surface. It is literally true that 
a manufacturer here has no difficulty in locating his shops 


59 

Through the different stages of village, town and city; 
through the drastic experience of fires, floods and strikes 
Scranton has grown in sixty-five years from 100 inhabi¬ 
tants to 120,000. Meantime real estate improvements and 
values, in spite of their rapid growth, have scarcely kept 



Scranton Savings Bank, 120 Wyoming Ave. 


within a stone’s throw of some culm pile containing mil¬ 
lions of tons of the purest coal, which can be had for a 
few cents per ton. 

A chapter might well be written about the new office 
buildings of the city which have been built principally on 


pace with the population. 

Special mention should be made of the evident fact 
that Scranton has good architects. Business buildings 
and private residences are generally well designed and 
substantially built. Building stone is found in the vicinity 


W. T. Hackett, Real Estate and Insurance, R. E. Exchange Bldg. 



Washington, Wyoming and Lackawanna avenues. These 
handsome buildings occupy ground which only a few years 
ago was covered with rickety structures that were an 
eyesore to the community. 


of the city, and several large brick yards manufacture a 
variety of fine bricks. 

In brief, it may be said that man has made fair the Lack¬ 
awanna Valley so richly endowed by nature. 


























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THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. 

The International Correspondence Schools. 

If Scranton contained nothing but this institution and 
the business immediately dependent upon it, the town 
would be marked as one of rapid growth and unusual pros¬ 
perity, and its name, from the extensive advertising and 
patronage of the schools, would be a household word all 
over the country. Since its beginning twelve years ago 
six hundred and five thousand students living in all parts 
of the world have taken one or more courses of instruction 
in this all-embracing institution of technical education. At 
present the enrollment of new students is at the rate of 
thirteen thousand a month, and the enrolling department 
alone requires the services of fifty employes. The business 
correspondence of the Schools together with the letters of 
instruction to students is very extensive and employs the 
services of two hundred and fifty stenographers and type¬ 
writers and fills three thousand letter files. The beautiful 
four-story stone building on Wyoming avenue built by the 
Schools a few years ago, soon proved to be altogether too 
small to accommodate the business, and at present the 
overflow is found in a score of the principal office build¬ 
ings of the city. Altogether the Schools have eleven hun¬ 
dred regular employees, less than half of whom find room 
in the main building. A new brick building is approach¬ 
ing completion, which will contain over six acres of floor 
space—the size on the ground being 460 by 167 feet. This 



International Correspondence Schools, Executive Depart¬ 
ment. Built by Peter Stipp. 



MT.SXMARY, ACADEMY suiL 

SCR AN ION. FA. 

J.A.SVCK mvtx X 


Mount St. Mary’s Academy. 





















THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


41 


building will be devoted to the printing department of the 
institution, and it is expected to be the largest printing 
establishment in the world. The Schools spend in postage 
alone upward of $100,000 a year. The instruction papers 
sent to advanced students are now issued in a series of 
volumes under the general name of International Library 
of Technology. These lessons and the books have been 
prepared by experts in the several branches, and it is 
claimed that they constitute the best technical work ever 
offered for sale. Forty-five volumes of the work have 
already been published. They cover in a popular form but 
with technical design the subjects of Shop Practice, Ap¬ 
plied Mechanics, Steam Engineering, Marine Engineering, 
Sheet-Metal Pattern Drafting, Electrical Engineering, Gen¬ 
eral Chemistry, Chemical Technology, Metallurgy, Tele¬ 
graph Engineering, Telephone Engineering, Locomotive 
Engineering, Navigation, Architecture, Civil Engineering, 
Mining, and Commercial Law. 


The parent corporation, The International Correspond¬ 
ence Schools, has increased its capital from time to time 
to meet the demands of unprecedented growth. The capi¬ 
tal is now $3,000,000, besides a bond issue which is secured 
by real estate. The latest issue of the treasury stock was 
sold at $125 a share, the par value being $100. 

Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary. 

On Seminary Heights, one of the beautiful suburban 
hills of Scranton, is located the campus and new building 
of Saint Mary’s Seminary. To the north and east are the 
Moosic Mountains; stretching away to the northeast and 
southwest is the picturesque Lackawanna Valley. The 
building is four stories high, and is constructed of brick, 
with native blue stone trimmings and slate roof. It is de¬ 
signed in the style of Modern Renaissance, and is substan¬ 
tial and imposing. It has a frontage on Adams avenue of 
200 feet, with two receding wings measuring 175 feet each. 



Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary. Senior Study Hall. 


The International Textbook Company, which publishes 
these books, was organized in 1891 with a capital of $100,- 
000. The entire capital stocks of four other subsidiary com¬ 
panies are also owned by the International Correspond¬ 
ence Schools. These corporations are as follows: 


Capital. 

Technical Supply Company.$300,000 

Scranton Correspondence Schools. 100,000 

Mines and Minerals. 100,000 

Electro-Therapeutic and X-Ray Institute. 25.000 


The basement floor contains the gymnasium, swimming 
pool, needle baths, laundry, engine room, store rooms, etc. 
In the centre of the first floor is the chapel, with a seating 
capacity of four hundred. In the left wing are the library, 
office, museum, auditorium, two dining halls and kitchen; 
in the right wing are reception rooms, dining halls, kitchen 
and a suite of rooms for guests. The second floor con¬ 
tains the class rooms, lecture rooms, music rooms, art 
rooms, twenty-six sleeping rooms and the infirmary. On 
the third flcor are dormitories, music rooms, study hall 




















4 2 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 



Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary. Art Room. 



Mount St. Mary’s Seminary. Senior Recreation Hall 




















































THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


r.\ 


and the commercial department. On the fourth floor are ture in 1883. and is empowered to confer the usual aca- 

practice rooms, gymnasium for the younger students, and demic honors. The teacheis in this school aie sistei 

rooms for indoor recreation. From this floor two flights the Society of the Immaculate Heait of Mai>. 
of stairs lead to the astronomical observatory. prospectus of the institution gives assuiance 



The ground for this building was broken in July, 1900, 
and it was completed in May, 1902. The historical sketch 
of this institution shows how it originated in the educa¬ 


tional work founded in 1858 by Very Rev. J. V. O'Reilly, 
and which also led to Saint Joseph's, Saint Alphonsus’, 
Saint John's and Saint Cecelia’s collegiate schools and 
seminaries. Saint Mary’s was chartered by the legisla- 


Catholic religion with the catechism, church history and 
related subjects are carefully taught in graded classes, 
and that all students attend morning and evening prayers. 


assist daily at holy mass, approach the sacraments of 
penance and holy communion at least once every month, 
make a visit to the blessed sacrament and recite a chaplet 
of the rosary together daily, while each has her own spe- 











44 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


cial time for private devotions, and also, once a year, an 
opportunity to make a spiritual retreat. 

Special services of devotion are conducted in the chapel 
during the months of October, March, May, June, during 
the Lenten season, and in preparation for the feast of the 
holy infancy of Jesus and for the feast of Saint Aloysius. 

The head of the Seminary is known by her official title, 
the Mother Superior. The institution is strongly recom¬ 
mended to parents by the Right Reverend M. J. Hoban, 
Bishop of Scranton, and his picture is the frontispiece of 
the prospectus from which the above statements were 
derived. 


The Pennsylvania Oral School for the Deaf. 

This institution was incorporated in 1884. It had its origin 
in the work of Mr.—afterward Rev.—J. M. Koehler, who 
began in 1882 to teach a class of deaf children. Hon. Alfred 
Hand, Rev. Dr. S. C. Logan, and other prominent citizens 
soon recognized the value of the work. Through their 
work, as a committee of fifteen, funds were received for the 
maintenance of the school, and the number of pupils in¬ 
creased. The friends of the school believed that it should 
be made a state institution, and after repeated efforts at 
Harrisburg an appropriation was secured in 1889. The 
same year the school completed a new building which 



Entrance to the Young Men’s Christian Association Build ing. 


The School of the Lackawanna. 

This school was established in 1873 by Rev. Thomas M. 
Cann. In 1875 suitable buildings were erected and the 
school was carried on in two departments. The next year 
the school was reorganized under its present name, and its 
reputation as a high-grade school has been continuously 
maintained. It is generally recognized as the foremost 
classical school in northeastern Pennsylvania. It has pre¬ 
pared students for all the great colleges and scientific 
schools of the East. 


accommodated fifty boarders. Within five years two other 
large buildings were erected, which left the whole of the 
first building for class rooms, and gave accommodations 
for upward of eighty scholars. 

The school grounds comprise two blocks, extending from 
Washington to Jefferson avenue, and from Electric street 
to Drinker Turnpike. From the foundation of the institu¬ 
tion Hon. Alfred Hand has been its president. 

Among institutions of its class this school stands very 
high; indeed, it has a national reputation. 





















































THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


45 


The Scranton Conservatory of Music. 

This school, at the corner of Adams avenue and Linden 
street, was opened in 1896 by Professor J. Alfred Penning¬ 
ton, the present director of the institution. The method 
of piano instruction used is the Faelten system. The 
school accommodates two hundred pupils, and is the only 
institution of the kind in the Lackawanna valley. The 


PHILAXTIIROPIC AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS. 
The Young Men’s Christian Association. 

The beautiful new building on the corner of Washington 
avenue and Mulberry street, which was opened by the 
Association February 17th, 1903, would be a credit to any 
metropolis. It is a fit home for an institution which for 



Rotunda of the Young Men’s Christian Association Build ing. 


faculty consists of seven teachers besides the director. 
Twenty-seven new pianos have just been bought from a 
Scranton piano manufacturer for the exclusive use of the 
pupils of this school. 


thirty-five years has had the active sympathy and support 
of Scranton’s best citizens, and which in many different 
ways has served the city in the preservation of morals, 
the education of youth, the enforcement of law and order 



The Hardenburgh School of Music and Art teaches in¬ 
strumental music, drawing, painting and designing. 

The Scranton Business College is an institution which 
compares favorably with similar schools in other cities. 


and the fostering of everything that makes for civic 
righteousness. While the same commendation might be 
given to most Young Men’s Christian Associations, it 
seems to be peculiarly true of the Scranton Association, 





















4(5 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


whose history shows that its management has been di¬ 
rected by the prominent business and professional men of 
the city acting through executive secretaries who have 
been remarkable for their zeal, energy and efficiency, as 
well as piety. Many of the men whose names stand fore- 


out of which grew the flourishing W. C. T. U., the Young 
Women’s Christian Association, and the Railroad Depart¬ 
ment of the Y. M. C. A. 

In addition to these, the Trinity Lutheran Church, the 
Grace Lutheran Church, the Grace Reformed Episcopal 



Young Men’s Christian Association. Senior Gymnasium Class. 


most in the history of manufacturing and banking in 
Scranton were charter members of the Association. 

That the institution has been a great source of energy 
and organization in the community is indicated by the 
number of prosperous churches and societies that had 


Church and the Calvary Reformed Church were organized 
in the Association building, being aided by the facilities 
there afforded them. At present the congregation of the 
First Presbyterian Church, pending the completion of 
their new building, hold all their meetings in the hand- 



Young Men's Christian Association. Intermediate Gymnasium Class. 


their beginning there. These institutions are as follows: 
The A. M. E. Church, the Park Place M. E. Church, the 
Home of the Friendless, the Cedar Street Mission—now 
connected with the First Presbyterian Church, the Res¬ 
cue Mission, the Ladies' Christian Temperance Union— 


some auditorium of the Association which seats, in opera 
chairs, 910 persons. 

It was in 1858, fourteen years after the beginning of the 
Young Men's Christian Association in London, by George 
Williams, and seven years after the beginning of the flrat 



























THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


47 


Association in this country, that the Scranton Association 
was founded with Joseph H. Scranton as president. Dur¬ 
ing the civil war the organization lapsed, but it was re¬ 
vived in 18(58, Mr. Alfred Hand being elected president. 
The third floor of the building, No. 324 Lackawanna Ave- 


toxicating liquors. This resulted in the indictment of 113 
saloon keepers for Sunday and other illegal liquor selling. 
The next year President H. M. Boies reported that an ex¬ 
amination of the court records showed the result of this 
law enforcement work to be a diminution of criminal 



Young Men’s Christian Association. Junior Gymnasium Class. 


nue, was rented and furnished by the Association. At 
the end of the year President Hand reported an increase 
of membership from 24 to 381. One of the Scranton news¬ 
papers declared at that time that “the Young Men’s Chris¬ 
tian Association is rapidly becoming one of the favorite 


cases and an increase of license fees which amounted to 
at least $30,000. 

In April, 1874, the Park Place Chapel, built by the Asso¬ 
ciation, was opened and dedicated for union services. Six 
weekly meetings were regularly held. In November of 



Young Men's Christian Association. High School Gymnasium Class. 


and most useful institutions of our city.” The next year 
eleven standing committees were actively at work—the 
eleventh one being engaged in a canvass for a new 
building. 

In 1871 the Association began an active movement for 
the enforcement of the laws regulating the traffic in in- 


the same year the Association opened a branch in Hyde 
Park. In 1875 and 1876, under the presidency of L. B. 
Powell, a campaign was carried on against the houses of 
ill fame which drove all but three or four out of thirty or 
forty from the center of the city. 

The following years were marked by various activities 

























THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


48 


and irregular growth. In 1880 the Railroad Department 
of the Association was organized. It was not until 1883 
that the Scranton Association adopted the policy, now 
universal among the Young Men’s Christian Associations 
of this country, expressed in the motto, “work for young 


city, and he personally accompanied members of the Asso¬ 
ciation to the offices of business men and urged upon them 
the necessity of providing a suitable home for the institu¬ 
tion. At the last meeting in the Rink pledges toward a 
building fund were received to the amount of $32,182.03. 



Young Men's Christian Association. Business and Professional Men’s Class. 


men by young men.” Before that time it had been, as 
President Connell expressed it, “anything and everything 
for anybody and everybody.” Here as elsewhere, the 
policy of concentration has been abundantly vindicated 
by its -results. 


November 4th of the same year, a contract* for $44,980 
was awarded for the erection of a new building on founda¬ 
tions which had already been put in. This building, located 
on Wyoming avenue, was opened with a public reception 
February 3rd, 1887, at which $9,000 was subscribed for the 



Young Men’s Christian Association. Swimming Pool. 


In January, 1885, D. L. Moody held a three days’ meet¬ 
ing in the Rink at which great religious interest was 
aroused. Mr. Moody was well acquainted with the great 
value of the Young Men’s Christian Association to any 


erection of a gymnasium and auditorium. 

The Scranton Republican in its editorial comment on 
the completion of the fund of $70,000 remarked: “The 
exhibition of the hold the Young Men’s Christian Associa- 















THE CITY OE SCRANTON 


49 


tion has on -the hearts of the leading and most influential 
citizens of Scranton is wonderful, astonishing even those 
who were present at the opening receptions.” 

It would be a pleasure to mention here the names of the 
officers of the Association to whose energy and devotion 


which gave Scranton what was then probably the best 
Y. M. C. A. building of any city of its size. 

Colonel H. M. Boies was elected president in 1888, and 
served for three years. He was succeeded by Mr. William 
J. Hand, son of Mr. Alfred Hand—the first president of the 



Home for the Friendless. 


so much credit is due, but so many have been actively 
identified with the institution, and have largely contrib¬ 
uted to its prosperity, that any selection of names seems 
almost invidious. Mr. Thomas T. Horney was general 


Association. 

In 1892 Mr. George G. Mahy, the general secretary of the 
Association, was called to that position which he has so 
well filled to the present time. In 1893 Mr. A. W. Dickson 



Home for the Friendless. Reception Room and Exchange. 


secretary from February, 1881, to December, 1890, and Mr. 
William Connell was president from 1884 to 1888. These 
two terms of office covered the very trying years of the 
building canvass and the execution of the undertaking 


was elected president. The next year Mrs. Frances A. 
Hackley of New York, being informed of the educational 
work and needs of the Association, very generously 
placed in the hands of the Board of Trustees the sum of 
















50 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


$35,000 to be used for the establishment of a manual train¬ 
ing school. The success of this school attracted attention 
all over the country. 

In 1897 Mr. H. C. Shafer was elected president. During 
the ten years that the building had been used the institu- 


larly frequented the building for mental, physical, social 
or spiritual help and training without a place of resort, 
and the workers dazed with the suddenness of the loss. 

Realizing the importance of the emergency the trustees 
did not lose a single day. The afternoon of February 4th 



Home for the Friendless. Dining Hall. 


tion had really outgrown the accommodations which at 
first seemed ample. The membership had increased to 
over fourteen hundred and the daily attendance was up¬ 
wards of five hundred. On the 3rd of February, 1898, the 
eleventh anniversary of the dedication of the building— 


a joint meeting of trustees and directors was held in the 
Board of Trade rooms, and they issued a call for one hun¬ 
dred thousand dollars in subscriptions, and headed the list 
with their personal subscriptions to the amount of twenty 
thousand dollars. 



occurred the fierce and uncontrollable fire which destroyed 
the structure into which so many generous gifts had gone 
and for which so many earnest efforts had been made, 
leaving at least seven hundred young men who had regu- 


The next year the splendid building site, 90 by 200 feet, 
on the corner of Washington avenue and Mulberry street, 
was purchased and building plans adopted. The present 
elegant building, which cost complete $340,000, was opened 




















THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


51 


February 17th, 1903. It combines beauty and utility in the 
highest degree, and is a continual source of satisfaction 
to all visitors and residents of the city, and especially to 
its twenty-four hundred members. 

The spacious rotunda or reception hall is an impressive 
feature of the building. The stately staircase leading to 
the upper floors, the reading room, the game room, the coat 
room, and the entrances to the elevator, gymnasium and 
auditorium can all be seen from the Secretary’s office. The 
gymnasium is 5a. by 76 feet without an obstructing post. 
The handsome auditorium seats 910 persons. It is venti¬ 
lated by powerful fans. The stage is large and designed 
for various forms of entertainment. 


the building, reached by the elevator, affords a delightful 
view of the city and surrounding country. It will be used 
for orchestra concerts, lectures and meetings during the 
summer. The basement of the building contains a first- 
class restaurant, large barber shop, bowling alleys, baths, 
swimming pool, etc. 

The gymnasium classes have 500 members, and the night 
school 300 students. The Bible school and Sunday after¬ 
noon meeting for men have an average weekly attendance 
of 675. 

The Railroad Department of the Association is also 
enjoying a new building located on Lackawanna avenue 
near the railroad stations. It was opened February 19th, 



Moses Taylor Hospital. 


Between the first and second floors, in the central part 
of the building, a mezzanine floor contains the boys’ de¬ 
partment, having its own office, reception room, reading 
room, game room, and coat room. The second floor con¬ 
tains an attractive central hall, parlors and reading room, 
a small lecture hall, two studios, the visitors’ gallery of 
the gymnasium and the balcony of the auditorium. The 
members’ parlor opens on an outer balcony directly over 
the main entrance of the building. 

The third floor contains class rooms, three suites of club 
rooms and a parlor. The fourth, fifth and sixth floors con¬ 
tain in all eighty-four admirably planned rooms for single 
men—all of which are occupied by permanent tenants who 
have here all the comforts of a club house. The roof of 


1903. The building cost $30,000, of which one-third was 
contributed by the railroad companies. This contribution 
from the railroads was probably one of the best invest¬ 
ments they ever made. It puts the comforts of a club house 
within the reach and means of the five thousand railroad 
employes who make Scranton their headquarters, and pro¬ 
vides them with facilities for mental, physical, social and 
spiritual improvement during the hours which might other¬ 
wise be spent in idle waiting or demoralizing dissipation. 
This branch of the Association has at present sixteen hun¬ 
dred members. It receives a monthly appropriation of 
about $150 from the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 
Railroad, to be used for current expenses. Mr. W. W. 
Adair is the secretary of the branch. 





























V 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON. 


52 

The Young Women’s Christian Association. 

This institution was organized in 1887. It is conducted 
on what is called the metropolitan plan, being carried on 
in four branches in different parts of the city, all under 
the direction of one general secretary and board of man¬ 
agers, while each branch has its own secretary and execu¬ 
tive committee. At present all the branches occupy rented 
quarters, but a movement is in progress to provide the 
Central Branch with its own building—the present rooms 
being inadequate and overcrowded. An appeal is also 
made for a spacious and suitable boarding house for work¬ 
ing girls to be managed by the Association as a comfort¬ 
able home. The work of the Association is divided into 
the four departments, educational, physical, social, and 
spiritual. Classes are taught in English language and 


The Home of the Friendless. 

This institution, which is doing a very beneficent work, 
was founded in 1871 in response to a call from the mem¬ 
bers of the Young Men’s Christian Association. At that 
time the Y. M. C. A. was doing a very varied work. One 
branch of its activity was caring for the destitute. In de¬ 
scribing the origin of this Home Mr. Mossman, the general 
secretary of the Association, wrote as follows in his an¬ 
nual report: 

“It became necessary for me to provide tenements for 
several different families at the same time. Finding a 
number of different rooms in the building now occupied by 
the Home, I obtained an option on all these rooms, hoping 
to be able to make more satisfactory arrangements for all 
these families. Being unable to complete such arrange- 



Hotel Schadt. C. H. Schadt, Proprietor. Spruce Street and Penn Avenue. 


literature, commercial branches, domestic science, fancy 
cooking, sewing, dressmaking, millinery, embroidery, paint¬ 
ing, wood carving, vocal and instrumental music. In the 
gymnasum instruction is given by the physical director in 
the use of dumb bells, Indian clubs and wands, as well as 
in fancy marching, running, jumping, basket ball and other 
gymnastic games. 

In the lunch room dinner is served every day except 
Sunday to the visiting members. The officers of the Asso¬ 
ciation are as follows: President, Mrs. E. H. Ripple; first 
vice-president, Mrs. C. D. Simpson; second vice-president, 
Mrs. L. M. Gates; secretary, Mrs. C. B. Derman; treasurer, 
Mrs. H. J. HalL The general secretary of the Association 
is Miss Bertha M. Wood. 


ments as seemed desirable, I was greatly disappointed 
until, as I fully believe, the Father of the Fatherless and 
Widow’s Friend suggested the thought: Why not com¬ 
mence here and now a Home for the Friendless? In en¬ 
deavoring to act upon this suggestion the house was 
leased until April, 1872, and fitted up. The ladies of the 
city having by this time become deeply interested in the 
work, it was transferred to them, together with a balance 
of $127.25.” Special mention in this connection should be 
made of Rev. Dr. S. C. Logan, Colonel H. M. Boies and 
Theodore Roe. The new Home was incorporated October 
26th, 1873, and the next year a substantial building was 
erected at a cost of over $8,000. Ten years later the build¬ 
ing was considerably enlarged. The work is thoroughly 











THE CITY OF SCRANTON. 


53 


organized and supervised by ten standing committees. The 
officers for the year 1903 are as follows: President, Mrs. 
J. A. Robertson; vice-president, Mrs. C. P. Matthews; chief 
manager, Mrs. E. H. Ripple; recording secretary, Mrs. E. 
S. Moffat; corresponding secretary, Mrs. C. B. Penman; 
treasurer, Mrs. E. F. Chamberlin. 


mates, who are sent to the institution from the court*, 
generally remain for a term of two years. They are In¬ 
structed in carpet weaving, sewing, cooking, laundry and 
other household work. Illiterate inmates are also instruct¬ 
ed in elementary English. Bible readings and religious 
instruction are given daily by the matron, Mrs. K. Gard- 



Hotel Schadt, Office. 


The Florence Crittenton Mission. 

This institution was founded in 1893 as a rescue and re¬ 
formatory home for girls. The building owned and occu¬ 
pied by the institution was erected in 1897. It is a three- 


ner, and weekly by Rev. Geo. L. Alricli. 

This very beneficent institution receives no aid whatever 
from public funds, and it has no productive endowment; 
it is consequently entirely dependent for current expense* 


Hotel Schadt, Dining Hall. 



story brick structure about fifty feet square with an addi¬ 
tion 22 by 32 feet. Located on Harrison avenue in a very 
sightly and salubrious suburb the surroundings are all that 
could be desired for such a reformatory work. The in- 


on the contributions of friends. It is really a faith work 
The management is under a board of directors composed 
of well known ladies residing in the city. The officers are 
as follows: Honorary president, Mrs. Thos. Dickson; presl- 










































54 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON. 


dent, Mrs. J. L. Crawford; first vice-president, Mrs. A. D. 
Stelle; second vice-president, Miss J. L. Reynolds; record¬ 
ing secretary, Mrs. W. S. Diehl; corresponding secretary, 
Mrs. G. Edgar Dean. 


Lackawanna, The Moses Taylor, The Scranton Private 
Hospital, The Hahnemann and The West Side. 

The Lackawanna Hospital. 

This institution was established by Dr. B. H. Throop in 



The Scranton House, Mr. Victor Koch Proprietor. 206 Lackawanna A\.e. 


HOTELS. 

The Jermyn Hotel is one of the finest hostelries in the 
state. The Scranton House and the Schadt are also well 
patronized by travelling men. Other hotels of the city 
more generally patronized by families, being located in 
residence districts, are the Linden, the Holland, the Nash 
and the Terrace. 


1869, to care especially for the employees of the Delaware, 
Lackawanna & Western Railroad. The hospital was incor¬ 
porated in 1871. This dispensary was opened for the treat¬ 
ment of patients January 2nd, 1872, and the same year Dr. 
Throop went to Harrisburg for the purpose of receiving 
an appropriation from the legislature. At different times 
since then appropriations have been made of $10,000 per 



The Scranton House, Office. 


SCRANTON HOSPITALS. 

The City of Scranton has five hospitals that have very 
excellent reputations—some of them receiving many 
patients from out of the city. These institutions are The 


annum. It is now a State institution. The buildings are 
located on Franklin avenue near the corner of Mulberry 
street. The capacity of the hospital is one hundred 
patients. — 












THE CITY OF SCRANTON. 


o5 


The Moses Taylor Hospital. 

This institution was founded in 1882 by Moses Taylor 
who gave to it $250,000 in first mortgage bonds of the Dela¬ 
ware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company, worth 
at that time about $270,000. The hospital was founded for 
the benefit of the employees of the railroad, and also those 


It was not until 1891, however, that the elegant buildings 
now occupied were completed and opened. The latest 
building to be added to the stately group was the Nurses’ 
Home—a memorial to their mother presented by Moses 
and Henry Taylor—which was opened May 29th, 1902. The 
buildii.gs combine thoioughly hygienic living conditions in 


The Linden, Linden Street. 



of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company—of which com¬ 
panies Mr. Taylor was a director. The beds are also free 
to the dependent members of the families of employees of 
those corporations. 


a sightly location with comfort and even luxury. The 
Training School for Nurses is one of the important branch¬ 
es of the institution. The hospital will accommodate at 
one time upward of sixty patients, and as this is in excess 



The Linden, Office. 


In February, 1884, Mr. and Mrs. Percy H. Pyne donated 
$100,000 to the institution, and July 22nd of the same year 
it was incorporated. The Lackawanna Iron and Coal Com¬ 
pany donated for a site the entire block of ground bounded 
by Clay and Quincy avenues, and Pine and Gibson streets. 


of the usual requirements of the beneficiaries of the insti¬ 
tution, a limited number of others are accepted as pay 
patients. The medical staff of the Hospital, of which Dr. 
J. M. Wainwright is surgeon-in-chief, has seven members, 
and the nursing staff has thirteen members. 





















THE CITY OF SCRANTON. 


56 


The officers of the hospital are: Moses Taylor, presi¬ 
dent, and E. E. Loomis, secretary and treasurer. Other 
directors are: W. H. Truesdale, Colonel Walter Scranton 
and Henry Wehrum. 


were taught by Dr. Thomson. In 1894 the hospital wa* 
granted a charter under “an act to provide for the incor¬ 
poration and regulation of certain corporations,” approved 
April 29th, 1874. The charter reads as follows: -‘‘The 


Hotel Holland, E. E. Thomas, Proprietor. 408 Adams Ave. 



The Scranton Private Hospital and Training School for 

Nurses. 

This institution was organized in 1894, by Dr. Chas. E. 
Thomson, at 401 Wyoming avenue. At the beginning only 
two nurses were in the training school and all the subjects 


said corporation is formed for the purpose of the support 
of a medical or scientific undertaking in the City of Scran¬ 
ton. which shall be devoted to giving instruction in the 
nature, proportions and various modifications of medicine 
and surgery, and in the scientific application of the same 



Hotel Holland, Dining Hall. 



























THE CITY OF SCRANTON. 


57 


to the alleviation of pain and in the cure of disease.” 

The incorporators were: Dr. Chas. E. Thomson, Dr. 
Reed Burns, Dr. L. Wehlau, Dr. W. B. Bullock, all of Scran¬ 
ton, and Dr. James B. Garvey, of Dunmore. 


the site now occupied, corner Mulberry street and Wyo¬ 
ming avenue, was purchased and the present substantial 
building erected. The first president was Dr. L. Wehlau, 
who occupied that position four years. It has since been 



Hotel Nash, S. M. Nash, Proprietor. 416 Adams Ave. 


In 1897 the hospital was chartered at Harrisburg under 
the act of 1894 (this being the first corporation to take 
advantage of this act), entitled “A further supplement to 


occupied by Dr. H. D. Gardner. Dr. C. E. Thomson has 
been superintendent since the hospital was organized. The 
first year the hospital was organized, 1894, twenty-nine 



Hotel Nash, Dining Hall. 


an act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of 
certain corporations.” The capital stock is $50,000 in 1,000 
shares, all of which is held by physicians. In the year 1897 


patients were admitted. The second year sixty patients 
were admitted. In 1902 three hundred and thirty-four 
patients were admitted, and during the first ten months of 











































58 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON. 


3 903 three hundred and thirty-five were admitted. There 
are sixteen nurses enrolled in the school. The Scranton 
Private Hospital has no staff. Any regular practitioner 
can have his patients admitted, treat them himself, and 


The Private Hospital was organized as a stock company— 
most of the stockholders being physicians and surgeons 
practising in Scranton. This hospital has never had a 
staff, not even a medical manager, and therein lies its 



The Linden, Dining Hall. 


enjoy all the privileges of the institution. Eighty-five 
physicians sent patients or engaged nurses here in 1902. 

The entire first floor of the hospital is devoted to physi¬ 
cians’ offices. It is divided into six suites of two rooms 


peculiarity. It contains the offices of quite a number of 
physicians, surgeons and specialists, operating rooms, and 
private rooms for thirty patients. It has trained nurses 
and all the usual equipment of a first-class hospital—-ex- 



J. D. Williams & Bros., Dini 

each. The Scranton Clinical and Pathological Society and 
Medical Journalistic Library have rooms in the building. 

Most of the hospital work is surgical, and two hundred 
and twelve major operations were performed the first ten 

months of 1903. 


g Hall. Washington A»e. 

cept the staff. Patients are brought here or sent here by 
their physicians under whose treatment they remain while 
in the institution. In its plan, due principally to Dr. Thomp¬ 
son, this hospital was absolutely novel, and it has been 
carried out consistently and successfully to the present 













THE CITY OF SCRANTON. 


time; but for some reason the plan whose feasibility has 
been thus demonstrated has been copied by only one or 
two other institutions. The plan has a double advantage 
in many cases. The patient naturally becomes attached to 


59 

the only plan under which a medical man can send a 
patient to a hospital, with which he has no connection, 
without losing the patient, that is to say, without turning 
the patient over to another practitioner. 



J. D. Williams & Bros., Confectioners. The New Stores. 


his own physician and contemplates with great dread the 
removal to a hospital where he will be treated by a 
stranger. If the going to the hospital simply means a new 
home for the patient where he can be treated by his own 


The Hahnemann Hospital. 

This institution was incorporated in November, 1897. It 
occupies the Scranton residence at the corner of Monroe 
avenue and Linden street. A quiet and comfortable home 



J. D. Williams & Bros., Confectioners. 


physician to the best advantage the change will be cheer¬ 
fully made. This is exactly what the Private Hospital 
provides, and, on the other hand, the advantage of the plan 
to the physician or surgeon who wants to continue the 
treatment of his patient is equally obvious. Indeed, it is 


is here provided for the sick and suffering of all classes 
desiring homeopathic medical or surgical treatment. Per¬ 
sons suffering from any disease not contagious are received 
here where they can have the best of treatment and skilled 
nursing. A number of private rooms have been furnished 





























60 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON. 


especially for such persons as may be taken ill at hotels or 
boarding houses. There is a maternity ward, and also a 
ward furnished with beds and cribs for children. 

There are wards for charity patients—the inmates of 
which receive board, treatment and nursing absolutely 
free. A sewing committee of ladies connected with th« 
management of the hospital provides hundreds of garments 
for the patients who are destitute. A training school for 
nurses and a department for the home nursing of the 
sick are also connected with this hospital. The medical 
board has eight members with F. D. Brewster, M. D., as 
the chief. The surgical staff has four members with J. W. 
Coolidge, M. D., as the chief. The board of managers con¬ 
sists of fifteen ladies. There is also an advisory board 
consisting of ten prominent business men. The officers 
are as follows: President, Mrs. Charles H. Welles; vice- 
presidents, Mrs. Clarence D. Simpson and Mrs. William 
T. Smith; recording secretary, Miss Emeline K. Richmond; 
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Lucy R. Sanderson; treas¬ 
urer, Mrs. Henry Belin, Jr.; superintendent. Miss Grace 
E. M. Smith. 


The First Methodist Episcopal Church of Scranton. 

This church was founded about 1841. Their first build¬ 
ing, known as the village chapel, was erected on a lot at 
the corner of Lackawanna and Adams avenues. From 
1854 to 1858 the church was engaged in the erection of a 
new building at the corner of Adams avenue and Center 
street. In 1879 this building was enlarged and the mem¬ 
bership continued to increase. In 1891 there were about 
six hundred and fifty members with five hundred scholars 
in the Sunday school. The building being too small to 
accommodate the congregations a very eligible site for 
a new building was selected at the corner of Jefferson 
avenue and Linden street. The new building was twice 
burned during erection, December 3rd, 1892, and March 
27th, 1893. It was completed and dedicated December 
17th, 1893. The cost of the building and ground was 
|160,000, and the seating capacity is twenty-three hun¬ 
dred. This church has about seventeen hundred mem¬ 
bers, and a Sunday school of about fifteen hundred scho¬ 
lars. 



The New First Presbyterian Church, Jefferson Avenue. 
Peter Stipp, Contractor, 327 Washington Ave. 


CHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS. 

There are eighty-two churches in the present City of 
Scranton. Among the most prominent of these may be 
mentioned the Roman Catholic Cathedral on Wyoming 
avenue, the First and the Second Presbyterian, the Green 
Ridge and the Providence Presbyterian, the First (Elm 
Park), the Simpson, the Providence and the Asbury Metho¬ 
dist Episcopal, and the Penn Avenue, the First, the Jack- 
son Street and the Green Ridge Baptist. 

These churches are located in different parts of the 
city and offer religious privileges to all classes of the 

I 

community. 


The First Presbyterian Church of Scranton. 

This church was organized October 14th, 1848, with 
seventeen members. In 1855 Rev. Milo J. Hickok was 
installed as pastor. His salary was at first only $800 a 
year, but it was increased from time to time until before 
the close of his active ministry, in 1867, it had reached the 
sum of $2,500 per annum and a manse. During his min¬ 
istry 445 new members were received. Rev. Samuel C. 
Logan, D. D„ was elected pastor of the church August 
23rd, 1868. During the first twenty years of his ministry 
808 new members were received. 



















































































































































THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


01 


The present pastor of this church is Rev. Dr. James Mc¬ 
Leod, and Dr. Logan is the pastor emeritus. This church 
lecently sold their building on Washington avenue; they 
are now erecting a beautiful new building on Jefferson 
avenue. Many of the most prominent citizens of Scran¬ 
ton have been members of this church, and it has always 
been one of the most potent factors in the city’s life and 
progress. 


was built on the adjoining lot. After six years of very 
faithful and successful work Mr. Long resigned the rector¬ 
ship, but he continued in missionary work to the advanced 
age of eighty-eight years. 

Succeeding rectors were Rev. W. C. Robinson, 1859 to 
1862, and Rev. A. A. Marple, 1863 to 1877. Early in Mr. 
Marple’s rectorate a larger church building in a new loca¬ 
tion became imperative. The lots occupied by the pres- 



The New Scranton Monastery. Built by Woelkers & Beilman, Contractors, Washington Avenue and Center Street. 


St. Luke’s Protestant Episcopal Church. 

For more than half a century this church has been one 
of the most prominent and useful institutions in Scranton. 
Always conservative, and yet aggressive, this church has 
combined spiritual ministry and religious instruction with 
an active benevolence which has led to the organization 
and maintenance of suburban missions and churches, with 
Sunday schools and kindergartens, as well as many guilds, 
clubs and an industrial school in connection with the 
home parish. 

In 1851, Rev. John Long, a home missionary of the 
Society for the Advancement of Christianity of the Prot¬ 
estant Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania, was appointed 
by Bishop Alonzo Potter to work in Scranton and vicinity, 
which then had a population of about 2,500. Mr. Long 
preached in private houses, store rooms and halls as he 
had opportunity. St. Luke’s parish was organized August 
5, 1851, and it was incorporated the following January. 
Easter Day, 1852, Mr. Long assumed charge of the parish 
as rector in connection with his arduous work as a mis¬ 
sionary in Pittston, Hyde Park, Providence and Dunmore. 
Largely through his efforts two lots were secured on Penn 
avenue and a subscription started for a church building. 
Ground was broken Easter Monday, 1853, the corner stone 
was laid April 19th, and the first service was held in the 
basement the last Sunday of the following July. The 
completed building, whicn had sittings for 225 persons, was 
consecrated November 13, 1853. The next year a rectory 


ent beautiful church, rectory and parish house on Wyom¬ 
ing avenue, were generously donated by the Lackawanna 
Iron and Coal Company. Ground was broken for tha 
church July 5, 1866, and the corner stone was laid October 
9, 1867. The first service was held in the new building 
July 2, 1871. Eight years later financial embarrassment 
resulted in a failure to pay the interest on the mortgage 
indebtedness of $20,000, and there was a real danger of 
losing the property which had been acquired through so 
much devotion and sacrifice. Rev. Philip Pendleton, the 
new rector, succeeded however in getting the debt re¬ 
duced to $13,000 by August 1st, 1882, and the interest re¬ 
duced from seven to six per cent. The next year the 
church tower was built and a fine organ purchased. 

Mr. Pendleton’s resignation was reluctantly accepted 
in 1885. He was succeeded by Rev. Henry C. Swentzel, 
whose seven years’ pastorate included the payment of 
the church debt, the re-decoration and furnishing of the 
building and its formal consecration October 19th, 1891. 
The large and handsome rectory was completed and pre¬ 
sented to the church September, 1890, by the representa¬ 
tive of the estates of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Pierce. 

On November 1, 1892, the Rev. Rogers Israel, the present 
beloved rector of the church, began his pastorate. The 
beautiful and commodious parish house adjoining the 
church edifice was the gift in 1899 of Mrs. Mary Throop 
Phelps in memory of her parents Dr. and Mrs. B. H. 
Throop. 



































THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


62 

During Dr. Israel's rectorship the church has developed average prosperity of such publications. There were deaths 
great activity. At the present time missions are carried among them, to be sure, but doubtless some of them 
on at Dunmore, Olyphant and Nicholson; also Sunday were not fitted to survive. Some of the early attempts at 
schools on the south side and the east side. The church journalism in Scranton prepared the way for other pub- 
has many organizations for utilizing lay talent. There lications which were to follow them, and whose present 
are five guilds in the parent church and as many more success needs no demonstration. The number of periodi- 
in the missions; there are also three auxiliaries, two cals now published in Scranton is thirty-four. 



F. H. Gerlock & Co., Printers. Lackawanna & Jefferson A venues 


kindergartens, a girls’ friendly society and girls’ indus- The first periodical issued in Scranton was the Provi- 
trial school, a boys’ industrial association, a Brotherhood dence Mirror and Lackawannian. February 5, 1853, 

of St. Andrew and a periodical club. Charles E. Lathrop issued a prospectus for a weekly to 



F. H. Gerlock & Co., Printers. 


SCRANTON PERIODIC t LS. 

The newspapers published in Scranton circulate all 
through northeastern Pennsylvania. A cursory survey of 
the history of these periodicals during the past half cen¬ 
tury seems to show that they have enjoyed at least the 


be called the Lackawannian Herald. This was the first 
journalistic venture in the borough of Scranton. 

In August, 1856. the Scranton Republican was started 
by Theodore Smith as a political organ to oppose 
the Know-nothing party. After several changes in owner- 















THE CITY OF SCRANTON. 


ship and character it was purchased in September, 1867, 
by Mr. J. A. Scranton, the present proprietor, and the 
first number of the Morning Republican was issued the 
following November. Under Mr. Scranton's able manage¬ 
ment the paper prospered, and four years later he com¬ 
menced the erection of the present Republican Building— 
which is a five-story brick and stone structure on Wash¬ 
ington avenue which cost, with its equipment, about 
? 100 , 000 . 


63 

among the daily papers of the city, is The Scranton Tribune 
—which was started June 20, 1891. The Tribune has always 
been foremost in promoting the commercial and industrial 
interests of the city. It has been The Tribune’s aim to 
produce a comprehensive family journal, including the popu¬ 
lar features of the magazine with those of a live newspaper. 
To quote the editor’s own words, “We believe nothing is 
too good for Scranton and for the readers of Scranton's 
best newspaper.” 



The Scranton Wochenblatt was established by F. A. Lud- 
^vig in January, 1865. 

The Daily Times was founded in 1870. 

The Sunday Morning Free Press was established in 1872. 


The incorporators and original stockholders of the Tri¬ 
bune Publishing Company were nine of the most prominent 
citizens of the city. The first organization elected William 
T. Smith, president; Alfred Hand, vice-president; Major 



Lord Greystone and Lord Chesterfield. Dr. J. L. Wentz D -iving. 


The Scranton Truth, an independent afternoon paper, was Everett Warren, secretary; Colonel E. H. Rippie, treas- 
-started in 1884, and has attained considerable popularity. urer; and an executive committee comprising Messrs. 

The youngest in age. but first perhaps in importance H. M. Boies. William Connell and Luther Keller. 









64 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON. 


The first minute book of the company contains a declara¬ 
tion of principles and policy from which, it is claimed, the 
management has never departed. These principles are on 
a high moral plane, and the remarkable success of the 
journal issued from such a platform disproves the asser¬ 
tion, sometimes made, that high morality is incompatible 
with commercial journalism. We quote several character¬ 
istic planks from The Tribune’s platform. 


standards and to refuse the publication even as advertise¬ 
ments of whatever would contaminate or offend a pure 
mind or taste. 

“The Tribune shall endeavor in all things to be what 
its name indicates, a place for the proclamation of those 
ideas and views which, according to the highest and most 
patriotic Republicanism, are intended for the instruction, 
elevation and benefit of the people. It shall favor the 



Lord Brilliant and Lord Golden. Mrs. J. L. Wentz Driving. 


“It shall be a morning newspaper published daily except 
on Sundays. 

"In religion, the position that this is a Christian country 
and to be controlled by enlightened Christian principles, is 


cause of temperance, maintain the rights of the poor and 
oppressed here and everywhere, and require equal justice 
for capital and labor, for corporation and citizen.’’ 

The Tribune was the first paper in northeastern Pennsyl- 



Lord Golden and Lord Golden 2d. Dr. J. L. Wentz Driving. 


to be stoutly maintained, with the utmost freedom and 
toleration of religious belief. 

"In morals and sociology it shall be the design of The 
Tribune to foster and promote the highest, best and purest 


vania to install typesetting machines; and when it removed 
in 1895 to its present commodious home on Washington 
avenue it added a fifth machine to the four linotype 
machines it had previously used. 













THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


A Dickson boiler, made in Scranton, of eighty horse 
power, carrying a pressure of eighty pounds^ supplies the 
steam for the forty-five horse power engine which runs the 
presses, the engine which runs the dynamo, the pumps 
which supply the water plant, and the heat for The Tribune 


()i5 

MA A UF I CT l ’ll I SO 1X1/ USTli IES. 

It may well be questioned whether any other city than 
Scranton is so favorably located with respect to raw mate¬ 
rials and markets, and as well provided with railroad 
transportation by trunk lines reaching in every direction, 



Suburban Electric Light Co. 
building and four others in the immediate vicinity. 

The leading magazine published in Scranton is Mines 
and Minerals, a standard technical journal that circulates 
all over the world. The capital stock of this company is 
$100,000, but not a share of the stock is offered lor sale 
at any price. 


Main Building. Scranton, Pa. 

and also provided with such a vast supply of cheap fuel 
or cheap power in any form. These are the principal con¬ 
ditions of success in manufacturing. Other very impor¬ 
tant conditions are a healthful, invigorating climate with 
an abundant supply of labor; a community of enterpris¬ 
ing business men who have already provided the facilities 



The American Locomotive 
The best-known Scranton author, and contributor to the 
local press, was the late Dr. H. Hollister, author of the 
standard work on the history of the Lackawanna Valley. A 
sixth edition of this work has just been called for. 

Col. H. M. Boies, of the State Board of Charities and Cor¬ 
rections, was the author of several works on criminology. 


Works. Scranton Branch. 

of banking, commerce, street transportation and city im¬ 
provements generally, and who appreciate the value to 
themselves of every new industry that is established in 
their midst; an abundant supply of pure water and perfect 
drainage, and an honest and capable government with 
only a moderate rate of taxation. 





































THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


66 

These conditions also are possessed by Scranton to a 
remarkable degree, and hence it is not strange that after 
making her first reputation as a coal mining city she is 
now making a reputation as a coal using city, that is to 
say, as a city of diversified manufacturing industries. In 


they dot the landscape of city and suburbs. Some pile* 
are a hundred feet high and several hundred feet long 
These millions and millions of tons of good fuel within 
city limits and very near the railroads may be bought 
at a merely nominal price—15 cents to 25 cents a ton. 



Nay Aug Lumber Co., Contractors. Prescott Street and R.dge Row. 


so great a degree are the advantages above named pos¬ 
sessed by Scranton that old industries established there 
for many years enjoy undiminished growth and prosperity 
at the same time that new industries are settling beside 
them, and both are sending their products hundreds and 


This fuel is used successfully by some of the largest manu¬ 
factories in the city, and the expense thus saved is enor¬ 
mous. 

During the five or six months of 1902 that the greatest 
miners’ strike ever known had its centre here, the mining 



Nay Aug Lumber Co. Planing Mill. 


sometimes thousands of miles to compete successfully 
with all others. Scranton is the natural metropolis of the 
largest anthracite coal basin in the world. For half a 
century the piles of waste from the coal breakers, called 
culm, have been growing in size and number until now 


of coal in this region was practically suspended, but the 
mills and factories were working over-time. 

The United States Census has tables of one hundred 
principal cities in the country arranged according to the 
value of their manufactured products, etc. These table* 















THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


show that Scranton ranked as follows: In 1890 No 99 in 
the number of establishments. In 1900 an advance was 
made to No. 53 in this classification; to No. 54 in the 
amount of capital invested, to No. 52 in the amount of 
wages paid, to No. 51 in the gross value of products and 
to No 5(i in the number of wage-earners. 


1)7 

The Dickson Manufacturing Company. 

In 1901 this old and famous manufacturing business of 
Scran ion was divided between the Allis-Chalmers Company 
and the American Locomotive Company. The business 
originated in 1856 under the name of Dickson & Company. 
About thirty-seven men were employed at first in the 



hay Aug Lumber Co. Finishing Chop. 


Another table of the Census gives the population and 
gross value of the manufactures of the largest cities, and 
the number of states for which the value of such products 
is less than that of each of the cities. In this table Scran- 


foundry and machine shop. During their first year the 
new company contracted with the Delaware and Hudson 
Canal Company to make their engines and boilers, and 
the thoroughness of this work at once established the 



Washburn, Williams & Co., Lumber Dealers. 119 Meridian Street. 


ton stands as No. 36. Some of the manufacturing indus¬ 
tries of the city have a national reputation, and their his¬ 
tory is a part of the history of the development of our 
country. 


reputation of Dickson & Company—whose name for nearly 
half a century was identified with Scranton. In 1862 the 
company was incorporated under the name of the Dickson 
Manufacturing Co., with an actual capital of 3150,000. 











68 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


The Cliff Locomotive Works of Scranton were then 
purchased from Cooke and Company. In 1864 the planing 
mill adjoining the Cliff Works was bought and the manu¬ 
facture of cars begun. The next year the company em¬ 
ployed altogether about four hundred men and had an 


machinery hall in an exposition. In 1883 the sales 
amounted to more than $1,400,000. 

In 1887, Mr. James P. Dickson, son of the founder, 
Thomas Dickson, succeeded H. M. Boies as president. In 
1896 after the management of the company had been in 


fMtMUKSYlK... 



Frank M. Moyer, Contractor and Builder. 920 Penn Ave. 


output of $600,000. The business continued to increase, a 
large foundry was built and other additions made to the 
plant. In 1870 the paid-up capital was $600,000 and the 
output $975,000. In 1876 the capital stock was again in¬ 
creased to $800,000. In 1875 the Cliff Works were rebuilt; 


the Dickson family for forty years, a reorganization was 
effected. Mr. C. H. Zehnder was elected president; L. 
F. Bower, secretary and treasurer; DeCourcy May, gen¬ 
eral manager. During the next five years many important 
improvements were made. A large and fully equipped 



Interior of Planing Mill. Frank M. Moyer. 


in 1878 a large storage building was erected, and in 1882 
a new shop was built on Penn avenue which was said by 
experts to be the best arranged shop of its kind in the 
country. From the gallery of this building the view of 
the floor, which covers 223 by 100 feet, is like that of a 


modern boiler shop was erected at the locomotive works; 
the shops were supplied with much new machinery and 
many new lines of business were added. 

In 1901 the Penn avenue works and Wilkesbarre branch 
were merged into the Allis-Chalmers Company, while the 















THE CITY OP SCRANTON 


Cliff Works became part of the American Locomotive Com¬ 
pany. Since the Allis-Chalmers Company came into pos¬ 
session a large additional amount of the best machinery 
has been installed, numerous enlargements have been 
made, and at present a fine new power plant is being 


69 

ware and Hudson railroads. They also make here many 
of the mine engines used in the coal region. The officers 
of this great corporation express the conviction, based on 
their own experience, that Scranton is an exceptionally 
good location for such an industry. 



Lumber Yard. Frank M. Moyer. 


erected, from which the entire works will be electrically 
driven. 

At the present time 600 men are employed. The work 
turned out of these shops is various, but most of it can 
be classified as Corliss* engines, blowing engines, sugar 
machinery and mining machinery. 


The Lumber Business. 

This is one of the important industries of the city which 
employs capital to the extent of millions of dollars. 

The United States Lumber Company is a very large 
concern that has its headquarters in the Board of Trade 
Building. 



Price & Howarth, Lumber. 1025 Washington Ave. 


The American Locomotive Company has doubled the 
capacity of their Scranton shops since their acquisition of 
the property in 1901. They now employ about 1,000 men. 
They make in these. shops the heavy locomotives used 
on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western and the Dela- 


The Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company has its 
headquarters in the same building. 

The Newman Lumber Company, incorporated in 1895, 
has a capital of $600,000. 

The Alamogordo Lumber Company has a capital of 
















70 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 



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John Benore and Son, Builders and Contractors. 710 Scranton St. 


















































































































































































































THE CITY OF SCRaNTON 


71 


>100,000. The Peekville Lumber Company, organized in 
1903, has a capital of $100,000. The Peck Lumber Manu¬ 
facturing Company, organized in 1892, has a capital of 
>80,000. The property includes a substantial stone mill, 
shops, warehouses, etc., with large lumber yard and office. 
The comjiany are extensive contractors and builders. 


The Scranton Forging Company. 

This is one of the most important enterprises in the 
city. The company was incorporated January 17, 1887, 
with a capital of $100,000. This is one of the many suc¬ 
cessful industries located here through the work of the 



Hower & Stender. Jefferson Avenue and Ash Street. 


The Nay Aug Lumber Company recently doubled its c-api 
tal and removed to larger yards on Prescott avenue and 
Ridge Row. This company is also engaged in the build¬ 
ing business. 


Board of Trade. The forgings and hardware made in 
these shops are sold all over the United States, and are 
also exported to some extent. The works occupy a group 
of large buildings on Bay Ridge street. 



Hower & Stender. 


Mason and Snowden. 

This firm are the proprietors of a large lumber yard and 
planing mill which they established here twenty years 
ago. They manufacture doors, sashes, blinds, etc. 


The Finch Manufacturing Company. 

This company was founded in 1855 by A. P. Finch, under 
the name of Finch and Morse, and was succeeded by 
Finch and Company, the firm being composed of A. P. and 


















I 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


72 


1. A. Finch. Later A. P. Finch sold his interest to I. A. 
Finch, and the business was continued as I. A. Finch and 
Company. The shops were destroyed by fire May 7, 1890, 
and were replaced by a new building 190 by 87 feet in size 
and 40 feet high, the capacity of the works being thus 


The Scranton Stove Works. 

This factory was established in 1865 by Fisher & Com 
pany, and three years later the business was incorporated. 
For a quarter of a century the company has manufactured 
stoves in great variety which are sold all over the country. 



Planing Mill and Sash Shop. G. H. Bingham. Dunmore. 


doubled. In 1893 the present Finch Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany was incorporated. The business of the company has 
always been the manufacture of steam engines, boilers and 
general coal mining machinery. The firm employs about 
200 men, and its machine shop, pattern shop, foundry, 


The output of the works is about 25,000 coal stoves and 
ranges per annum. The shop built in 1893 covers nine 
acres and employs 250 men. 

The Scranton Brass Works. 

This business was established here in 1865 by John 



Sash Shop of G. H. Bingham. 


boiler shop, powerplant, etc., occupy about half a block at 
the corner of Eighth avenue and Swetland street. The 
present officers of the company are: I. A. Finch, presi¬ 
dent and treasurer; L. W. Morss, vice-president; W. M. 
Gardner, secretary, and F. W. Gerecke. superintended. 


Maclaren. Soon afterward J. M. Everhart was admitted 
to partnership, and under his management the business 
became very prosperous. A specialty is made of mine 
and mill supplies and globe, angle and check valves which 
are sold all over the country. 






Carriage Works. W. E. Gilhool. 



Storage Warehouse. Geo. W Brown. Lackawanna 
Avenue and Cliff Street. 



W. E. Gilhool. 


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74 


T T !i: CITY OF SCRANTON 



Fells Brewery. Carbondale, Pa. Built by Woelkers &. 
Beilman, Contractors. Washington Ave. & Centre St. 


The Scranton Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. 






























THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


I • * 


The Moosic Powder Company. 

This company which was incorporated in 1865, makes 
a specialty of the manufacture of blasting powder, for 
which there is a large demand by the mining companies. 
The output of the works is several hundred thousand kegs 
per annum. 


a retail business, but outside a radius of fifty miles the 
sales are made through the trade. The factory employs 
about 100 men, most of whom are skilled mechanics re¬ 
ceiving high wages. The capital stock of the company is 
$150,000, all paid. The officers are: W. F. Van Dyke, 
president and treasurer; Arthur D. Van Dyke, vice-presi- 



LORD aWATERMAN 


Lord & Waterman, Builders. 948 Wyoming Avenue. 


Tt*e Van Dyke Piano Manufacturing Company. 

This company was organized January 1, 1903, to take 
over tke business of the Keller and Van Dyke Company 
wkick started the manufacture of pianos in Scranton, April 
1, 1898. The latter company succeeded to the business of 
Brothers, Bridgeport. Conn., a firm that had lung 


dent, and Arthur L. Collins, secretary. 

S. G. Barker and Son. 

This business, which is principally the manufacture of 
heavy scales and wire coal screens, was founded in 1847 
by S. G. Barker. The product of the works include a 
variety of wagon and truck scales of large capacity. de- 



Lord & Waterman. Interior of Planing Mill. 


been engaged in the manufacture of pianos. The Scran¬ 
ton factory at first had an output or only thirty pianos a 
month, but the business has had a rapid growth and the 
output is now 150 pianos a month. The instruments are 
sold from Maine to California. Locally the company does 


signed for the use of mines, manufactories, rolling mills, 
etc. This is one of the industries that have grown up 
with the City of Scranton and whose prosperity is a part 
of her history. In 1902 the growing business required a 
large increase in the capacity of the shops. 























THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


76 


The Dickson Mill and Grain Company. 

This company carries on a large milling business. The 
enterprise was established by C. T. Weston and Company 
in 1864. Ten years later it was incorporated with a capi¬ 
tal of $112,000 under the name Weston Mill Company. 


The Pennsylvania Central Brewing Company. 

This company was organized in October, 1897, being a 
combination of breweries in the anthracite coal regions of 
northeastern Pennsylvania. The constituent breweries 
were as follows: John Arnold Brewery, Hazleton; Casey 



Dickson Mill and Grain Co. Flour and Feed. Providence Read. 


The mill is a four-story brick structure, 150 by 75 feet in 
size. In 1885 the flour department was added with a 
daily capacity of 160 barrels of flour. In 1901 the com¬ 
pany was reorganized under the present name. 


and Kelly Brewing Company, Scranton; A. Hartung Brew¬ 
ery, Honesdale; Hughes and Glennon, Pittston; Hughes 
Ale Brewery. Pittston: Peter Krantz Brewery, Carbon- 
dale; Lackawanna Brewing Company, Scranton; Richard 



Dickson Mill ard Grain Co. Flour and Fesd. Providence Road. 


The Interstate Conduit and Brick Company. 

This company is the outgrowth of a private business 
established here in 1885. A specialty is made of the manu¬ 
facture of Are brick. The company was incorporated in 
1893 with a capital of $100,000. Four other companies are 
also engaged in brick manufacture. 


and Weaver, Wilkesbarre; E. Robinson's Sons, Scranton; 
Scranton Ale Brewery, Scranton. The general offices of 
the company are located at No. 431 North Seventh avenue. 
Scranton, Pa., and its officers are: Charles Robinson, 
president; George N. Reichara. vice-president; William 
Kelly, vice-president; A. J. Casey, treasurer; W. G. Hard 
ing, secretary and assistant treasurer. 











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77 



Maloney Oil & Mfg. Co. 141 Meridian Street. 



C. P. Wentz & Co. 

A. R. Gould and Sons, Carriage Manufacturers. 

This business was established in 1859. The present 
factory building, a substantial five-story brick structure, 
415-421 Linden street, was erected in 1893. There are 75 


40 Lackawanna Avenue, 

employees and the output is about 300 vehicles a year. 
The business has recently had a rapid growth. The ter¬ 
ritory covered in the selling department extends from 
Elmira to Allentown. 


Wholesale Grocers. 







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7 * 


The Silk Industry. 

In 1872 was begun the silk industry of Scranton which 
has since grown to such great size. A building for such 
a factory was specially erected that year on the Pawnee 
tract—about one mile south of the city. It was a four- 


by 50 feet and four stories high, the other 312 feet by 40 
feet and three stories high. In 1895 another addition was 
built and the number of hands employed was increased to 
aDout 2,000. 

In 1899 the Meadow Brook Silk Factory, which had been 
established in the same vicinity ten years before, was pwr 



Klctz’s Silk Mills. 


story building 40 by 100 feet. Alfred Harvey was the 
superintendent. Three years later the number of em¬ 
ployees had increased to 180, and the factory was preparing 
lor the market 4 000 poirnds of thread silk per month. In 


chased by the Sauquoit Silk Manufacturing Company. By 
this purchase was acquired another four-story building 45 
by 167 feet in size. The Sauquoit mill is one of the largest 
Ik mills in the country. It produces thrown silk and 



Scheuer’s Bakery. 


1879 the property was purchased by the Sauquoit Silk 
Manufacturing Company which increased the length of 
the building irom 100 feet to 320 feet. Other additions 
were made to the factory in 1885 and 1889. In 1892 two 
large buildings were added to the factory—one being 315 


broad silk. Half a dozen other factories in Scranton are 
engaged in the production of silk, among these the Val¬ 
entine-Bliss Silk Throwster, the Alfred Harvey Silk Throw 
ster and Klotz’s Throwing Company. Several new silk 
factories have been started here very recently. 






















THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


.79 





Consumers Coal a'd Ice Company. Coal Department. 908 Warl.i gton Avenue. 



B. W. Schulte. Ice Dealer. 


Mifflin and Linden Streets. Pjcono Mountain and Heart Lake Ice. 









tmam 


80 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


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John F. Langon & Co. Stone Dealers. Providence Road. 



J. F. Langon cx. Co. Providence Road. 



W. J. Barriscale. Mantels, Tiles and Grates. 312 Washington Avenue. 



















THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


81 


The Scranton Lace Curtain Company. 

This company was incorporated June 15, 1897. The fac¬ 
tory at that time employed about 200 hands. The business 
has gradually increased and the output is now more than 
double what it was at that time. The Nottingham laces 
manufactured here are sold in all the large cities of the 


are one of the best established industries of the city. The 
products of the Lackawanna Mills are sold direct to the 
trade all over the country. The mills are located on Brook 
street and Cedar avenue, in the vicinity of the great Sau- 
quoit Silk Mill, the Scranton Button Factory and the 
Alfred Harvey Silk Mill. These mills engaged in the pro- 



Frank P. Spiegel. Sculpture Decoration. 323 Wasnington Avenue. 


United States. The officers of the company are: J. Ben¬ 
jamin Dimmick, president; Henry Belin, Jr., vice-president;- 
Paul B. Belin, general manager; F. Lammot Belin, treas¬ 
urer. and H. J. Hall, secretary. 


duction of the materials of clothing would alone make a 
prosperous manufacturing town of 10,000 inhabitants. 

The Steel-Tired Wheel Company. 

This is a prosperous manufacturing enterprise which 



Frank P. Spiegel. Sculpture Decoration. 323 Washington Avenue. 


The Lackawanna Mills. 

These mills for the manufacture of knit underwear, in¬ 
cluding every operation from the receipt of raw wool to 
the shipping of the completed garment, were incorporated 
in 1887. They have enjoyed remarkable prosperity and 


was incorporated September, 1888, with a capital of $500,- 
000, under the name of Boies Steel Wheel Company. The 
plant occupies an entire block and the output consists of 
wheels having a flexible connection between tire and hub 
and designed for coaches, locomotives and tender trucks. 










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THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


The Scranton Yarn and Finishing Company. 

This company, organized with a capital of $50,000, is only 
one year old, and the business is growing rapidly. The 
product of the factory is mercerized cotton yarns. Egyp¬ 
tian cotton is treated by strong chemicals which increase 
its strength about 30 per cent., and greatly improve its 


Of such industries recently located may he mentioned the 
Scranton Whetstone and Abrasive Wheel Company, the 
Scranton Hosiery Company, the Lackawanna Fertilizer and 
Chemical Company and the Spencer Heating Company. 

In concluding the subject of Scranton manufactories 
we will mpvely mention a few of the manv establishments 



Gordon Supply Co. Plumbers’ Supplies. 244-46 Penn Ave. 


quality. After being washed and dyed any desired tint 
the yarn is finished, wound and packed for the market. 
The finished yarn has a beautiful silky appearance and is 
known as “camel silk.” This industry and its product is 
well established in Europe, but is new in this country. 


which cannot be even briefly described in this connection. 
Some of these establishments send their goods all over the 
country and have won a well deserved reputation. The 
McClave Brooks Company is a consolidation of several iron 
companies; they were incorporated in 1901 with a capital 



Gordon Supply Co. Showrooms and Offices. 


Other New Industries. 

The Scranton Board of Trade is always disposed to co¬ 
operate with manufacturers who are preparing to locate 
some new and distinctly meritorious industry in their city. 


of $500,000, and have recently completed immense new 
shops in the Diamond Flats district. The Timmes-Hecht 
Rolling Mills are located on Jackson street, corner of 
Dewey avenue. The Scranton Steam Pump Company, or- 













Thos. F. Leonard, Hardware. 505 Lackawanna Ave. 


Swift, McCrindle & Co., Flour and Butter. Linden and 
Six th Streets. 



Thos. F. Leonard. Hardware Store. 
















































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THE CITY OF SCRANTON 



Kizer Mill and Elevator Co., Wholesale Flour, Feed ar.d Grain. Providence Road. 


ganized in 1898 with a capital of $200,000, the Paragon 
Plaster Company, the American Plaster and Supply Com¬ 
pany, and the Scranton Bolt and Nut Company, with a 
capital increased to $250,000, are located in the Green 
Ridge section of the city. The Lackawanna Steam Bak¬ 
ery is an independent concern organized in 1901 with a 
capital of $200,000. The Pennsylvania Baking Company 
was organized in 1902 with a capital of $100,000. The 
Scranton Button Company was organized in 1887 with a 
capital of $100,000. The Scranton Axle Works was or¬ 
ganized in 1892 with a capital of $150,000. Dr. Hand’s 
Condensed MilK Company has a capital of $500,000, and 
the Lackawanna Dairy Company, incorporated in 1899, has 
a capital of $250,000. The Kizer Mill and Elevator Com¬ 
pany, with a capital of $50,000, have erected and equipped 
a commodious modern plant on Providence Road. 

Wholesale and Jobbing Business. 

For several decades Scranton has been a wholesale cen¬ 
ter for northeastern Pennsylvania, but the growth of her 
wholesale business and the extent of her commerce is not 
generally known even by the merchants of the city. The 
wholesale district of the city is on the lower part of Lack¬ 
awanna avenue near the railroad stations. Here are whole 
blocks occupied by firms that began with only a local busi¬ 
ness, but are now regularly sending their drummers half 
way to Philadelphia on the southeast and half way to 
Pittsburg on the west—showing that Scranton as the third 
city of the state can hold her share of the wholesale busi¬ 
ness in competition with the two larger cities. A whole¬ 
sale produce merchant has extended his trade in Southern 
fruits to within fifty miles of Albany. Fruits are now sent 
direct from California and the South to Scranton wholesale 
dealers. One firm engaged in the wholesale fruit and pro¬ 
duce trade say their business has increased three-fold in 
the last six years. Some wholesale houses with specialties 
cover practically the Whole state. The wholesale grocery 
trade of the city is estimated at $10,000,000. 

The Scranton City Directory for 1903 show's eleven whole¬ 


sale grocery firms and corporations, seven wholesale dry 
goods houses, eight wholesale dealers in meats, twelve in 
flour, feed and grain, and six in boots and shoes. 



Chandler & Short, Fruit and Produce. 
15 Lackawanna Avenue. 

























THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


85 



The Scranton Supply & Machinery Co. 131 Wyoming Ave. 


G. W. Fritz Co., Harness. 410 Lackawanna Avenue. 



g a t* 



The Scranton Supply & Machinery Co. 





























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THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


PUBLIC SERVICE INSTITUTIONS AND 
CORPOIl ATI ONS. 

The Thirteenth Regiment. 

Since 1877 Scranton has been the headquarters of the 
Thirteenth Regiment Infantry, Third Brigade, National 


Guards, which was the military successor of the famous 
Scranton City Guard. The old armory on Adams avenue, 
between Linden and Mulberry streets, was erected for the 
accommodation of the Scranton companies of the guard,but 
in time the necessity for a new and better building became 



G. W. Fritz Co., Harness. 410 Lackawanna Avenue. 



Lackawar.r.a ar.d Wyoming Valley Railroad. (Gee page 25). 







THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


87 



H. S. Gorman & Co. Livery. 420 Spruce St. 



H. S. Gorman & Co. Office. 



H. S. Gorman & Co., Livery. 































88 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


manifest. Private subscriptions enabled the erection of 
the noble pile at Adams avenue and Myrtle street which 
is known as the Thirteenth Regiment Armory. It has a 
drill floor on which battalion movements can be executed 
with as much ease as would be possible in conducting the 


The Scranton Gas and Water Company. 

This company was incorporated March, 1854, with a 
capital of $25,000. In 1858 the company was authorized to 
increase the capital stock to $100,000, in 1866 to $250,0b0, 
and in 1871 to $500,000. The pi-esent capital is $11,000,000. 


McConnell & Co., Dry Goods. 400 Lackawanna Avenue. 



drill of a company. This new armory is fitted with a 
gymnasium, baths and recreation rooms for the use of the 
members. The building would be a credit to any metro¬ 
polis, and is a fit house for the celebrated regiment. 


Originally water was taken from the Lackawanna River. 
After the river water became contaminated by culm piles, 
in 1866, the supply was taken from Roaring Brook. A 
dam was completed in 1872 at a cost of $250,000. In 1880 



McConnell & Co. 

















THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


89 



H. D. Crane, Furs and Cloaks. 324 La:kawanna]Ave. 

























































90 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


further improvements were made, and in 1890 a 50-foot 
dam was constructed at Dunnings, which gave a large 
reservoir capacity. The entire cost of this dam was $300,000. 

The series of lakes from which the city’s water supply 
is now derived lie on the mountains east of the city. They 


The Scranton Railway Company. 

The claim is made, and apparently proved, that the 
Scranton Suburban Railway, the construction of which was 
begun July G, 1886, and which was completed to Green 
Ridge November 29 of the same year, was the first railway 


J. Traucott, Millinery. Lackawanna Avenue. 



are connected by five macadamized roads which wind 
through beautiful scenery. Thousands of acres of wood¬ 
land adjoining Nay Aug Park have been secured by the 
water company to protect its water shed from defilement, 
and this land makes an additicral park for the city. This 


east of the Mississipi River to be built for electric power. 

This fact, together with the subsequent rapid develop¬ 
ment of electric power in the city, is the basis for the 
sobriquet “The Electric City” which has often been ap¬ 
plied to Scranton. 



Goldsmith Bros., Shoe Dealers. 304 Lackawanna Avenue. 


company, as its name implies, supplies the city with gas 
as well as water. 

The Spring Brook Water Supply Company is another 
large corporation that supplies a part of the City of Scran¬ 
ton with water. 


In 1888 the Scranton Street Railway Company was re¬ 
organized. The capital stock was increased from $150,000 
to $400,000, and $200,000 in mortgage bonds were issued. 
The new capital was used to pay for the almost complete 
rebuilding of the road by the Sprague Electric Railway 






















THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


91 


and Motor Company. In 1894 the Scranton Traction Com¬ 
pany came into possession of all the electric street car 
lines in the Lackawana Valley, excepting the lines of the 
Carbondale Traction Company which were secured four 


The street railway development of the City of Scranton, 
covering as it now does practically every portion of the 
municipality and spreading its long arms up and down the 
Lackawanna Valley, on both sides, has been an achieve¬ 



Mercereau & Connell, Jewelers. 130 Wyoming Avenue. 


years later. The capital of the company is now $6 000,000 
with a bond issue of $2,500,000. At present the company 
operates about seventy-seven miles of track and provides 
many delightful trolley rides through the city and valley. 


ment of more than ordinary interest. In 1865 the first 
street railway in Scranton was incorporated—the People’s 
Street Railway Company of Luzerne County. This was 
thirteen years previous to the formation of Lackawanna 



Mercereau &. Connell, Interior of Store. 













THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


92 


County, and when the Hyde Park and Providence sections 
of Scranton were separate boroughs maintaining their 
own town governments. The Scranton of that day was 
hardly equal with them in population or physical impor¬ 
tance. They had their mining industries as the backbone 


quently consolidated. It was then agreed to run a car on 
the Providence line, “each way, as often as once every 
hour, from 7 A. M. to 10 P. M., except Sundays, and then 
to run as often as will accommodate those wishing to at¬ 
tend the churches and Sunday schools.” 



IV!. D. Breschel, Ladies Tailoring. 124 Wyoming Avenue. 


of their energy; Scranton had its iron mills and its rail¬ 
way centre to emphasize its superiority, supported also by 
a better business air in its commercial section. To bring 
these separate borough organizations into a closer relation 
this first street railway enterprise was given birth. The 


At some of the terminals a small turn-table was placed 
for the turning of the cars, and where there was none 
the driver, who was also the conductor, simply drove of! 
the end of the track, made a circle in the street with his 
car and came back upon the tracks, sometimes experi- 



M. U. Brescnei, interior or Store. 


men who headed this enterprise were A. B. Dunning, D. R. 
Randall, George Tracy, A. Bennett and Samuel Raub. 

Shortly after, Governor Curtin approved the Act of As¬ 
sembly which incorporated the Scranton and Providence 
Passenger Railway. These two companies were subse- 


encing trials in the operation. In the course of time 
Scranton reached out to the boundaries with Providence 
and Hyde Park, and then came the popular demand for 
uniting in one municipal body. When this was effected 
the street railroads received a new impulse 

























THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


The first day of the electric railway in Scranton is thus 
described in an article recently written by Mr. Sturges in 
defense of the claim that in this city was operated the 
first electric railway in the United States, and therefore 
the first in the world: 


Clay street road, operated by what was known as the 
Richmond Union Passenger Railway Company. It was on 
this line in 1887 that the first street cars were successfully 
propelled by the trolley, and during the experiment, for it 
was an experiment at that time, people the world over, 



L. D. Mosher, Tailor. 136 Washington Avenue. 


“I have looked over the article in the Richmond (Va.) 
Times, In which the claim is made that the city which was 
so long the bone of contention between the Northern and 
Southern armies was also ‘the pioneer in the use of elec¬ 
tricity as a motive power.’ This claim is nothing new. 
It has been so often repeated and so seldom challenged 


who were interested in street car progress, had their eyes 
on Richmond.’ 

“The construction of the Scranton Suburban Railway 
began July 6, 1886, and was completed to Green Ridge in 
November of the same year. Both the Republican and the 
Truth gave full reports of the first or trial trip, which took 




W. J. Davis, Tailor. 213 Wyoming Avenue. 


that throughout the country Scranton has virtually lost 
the honor to which it is beyond question entitled. The 
very first paragraph in the article in question proves our 
case. It says: 

“ ‘The first trolley line built in the world was the old 


place November 29, 1886. The tests were not altogether 
successful, owing to slight defects in the machinery and 
the icy condition of the tracks. These defects were soon 
remedied, and on the evening of November 30, 1886, the 
passengers returning to Green Ridge from Henry M. Stan- 























1)4 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


ley’s lecture had their first five-eent ride to that part of 
the city. From that time the cars continued to run regu¬ 
larly, except when interrupted by the severest winter 
weather I can remember in Scranton, or by occasional 


with Baltimore, Montgomery, Ala., South Bend, Ind., and 
Amherstburg, Can. But the tests were crude, and I think, 
had all been abandoned when Scranton entered the field 
and built and maintained a road that was a revelation to 



Geo. W. Watkins, Carpets and Draperies. 500 Lackawanna Avenue. 


accidents to the machinery, such interruptions being gen¬ 
erally very short. 

“It should be remembered, however, that our claim for 
Scranton was and is that it built the first railway for 


the thousands of visitors who came to our city to inspect 
it. It would be no exaggeration to say that pilgrims 
journeyed here from every state in the Union. I can re¬ 
member two delegations from California even. 



Geo. W. Watkins, Interior of Store. 

electric power east of the MR 'ssippi River. In several “Our cars were the finest that had ever been built (or 
places in this country trials had been previously made of have to this day). Some of them were Pullmans, the in¬ 
electric motors on old street car lines. This was the case side finish being of mahogany. These cost $1,800 each, 






















THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


95 


without the machinery. This amount would pay for at 
least three cars of the present style. When they were 
new and kept scrupulously clean, with freshly uniformed 
conductors and motormen and the electric lights (then a 
great novelty) they excited the admiration of all visitors. 


the appliances in use at the present time were invented 
or perfected in the Scranton shops. The trolley was, I 
am quite sure, first made by one of our employees, who 
took out no patent. It would have paid him a dozen for¬ 
tunes had he done so. The original device for taking the 



Louis H. Isaacs, Gents’ Fu 

I can especially remember a party of gentlemen from the 
Metropolis who declared repeatedly that New York had 
nothing in the street car line to touch that of Scranton. 
And it was true. Several of these parlor cars were burned 


lishings. 412 Spruce Street. 

current from the wire was a four or eight-wheeled ‘earner’ 
that traveled on top of the conducting cable. It was 
qiute heavy, and when it fell on the roof of a car, as It 
frequently did, nervous passengers jumped. The carpen- 



G. R. Clark, Florist. Commonwealth Building. 


up when the Nay Aug shop was destroyed. Two of them, 
however, are still running on the Dunmore Suburban, with 
the mahogany finish carefully painted over. Another car 
was the Pullman exhibited at the New Orleans Exposition, 
being the finest that company could turn out. Many of 


ters reported thirty-one holes through the roof of one of 
the fine Pullman cars before it had been used three months. 

“One of the things we failed to discover in Scranton was 
the fact that the proper place for the motor was under the 
car. Mr. Vanderpoele, who was the real inventor of elec- 
























06 


THE CITY OF 8CRANTON 


glad to sell the road at the actual cost in cash, with in¬ 
terest added. 

“Many columns might be written of interesting reminis¬ 
cences of our earlier experiences with electricity. What 
is more important, however, is the undoubted fact that 
Scranton had the first successful electric railway east of 
the Mississippi and that its only rival as to priority in the 
United States was a short railway in Appleton, Wis., which 
commenced ’operations a few days before the Scranton 
Suburban.” 



trie traction, always maintained that the weight must be 
upon the forward trucks, to prevent the wheels from slip¬ 
ping; also that the motor must be kept up high, out of the 
way of the mud and water, then very abundant in Scran¬ 
ton. So our motormen sat in a little engine room on the 
front platform, beside their machines, and the wheels 
slipped a good deal worse than they do under the present 
arrangement. The gearing was far more extensive and 
costly. In fact, almost everything was experimental, and 
repairs were so frequent and expensive that we were very 


J. W. Guernsey’s Music House. 

































































THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


■ 1 Ht 



F. Hug, Butcher Shop. Adams Avenue, 



Lackawanna Laundry. 308 Penn Avenue 







































118 


THE CITY OF SCRANTON 



f H °^SALE WALSH a CO. L, 0U 




Wholesale Liquor Dealer! 


Walsh & Co., Wholesale Liquors. 504 Lackawanna Avenu§, 



Walsh & Co., Interior of Store. 


















THE CITY OF SCRANTON 


99 



P. F. Cusick, Undertaker. 219 Washington Avenue. 



P. F. Cusick, Sanctuary. 219 Washington Aveni^:. ft f£ 


l of C 















































I N DEX 


Abbott, Philip. 9 

Albright Memorial Building.21 

American Locomotive Company.69 

Banking .32 

Barker, S. G , & Son.75 

Board of Trade.12 

Building permits.38 

Census, manufacturing industries.66 

Central Railroad of New Jersey.....31 

Churches . 60 

City officials, duties, salaries, etc.19 

Clearings of banks.37 

Climate .14 

Coal, anthracite, introduction to market. 28 

Coal field, extent and production of northern.,.17 

Correspondence Schools.40 

County Savings Bank and Trust Co.37 

Courts .13 

Culm, price of.19 

production of.17 

Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.28 

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R.23 

Dickson Manufacturing Co.67 

Dickson Mill and Grain Co.76 

Dime Deposit and Discount Bank.35 

Educational Institutions.40 

Electric railway, first.93 

Finch Manufacturing Co.71 

First Methodist Episcopal Church.60 

National Bank.32 

Presbyterian Church.60 

Florence Crittenton Mission. 53 

Glacial action.15 

Gould, A. R., & Sons.77 

Government of City.19 

Hahnemann Hospital.59 

Hillside Home.22 

History, early. 9 

Home of the Friendless.52 

Hospitals .54 

Hotels .54 

Indian relics. 9 

Industries, new.82 

International Correspondence Schools.40 

International Textbook Company. 40 

Iron furnaces, first. 4.11 

juDbing business.84 

Lackawanna anu Wyoming Valley R. R.25 

County Court House.21 

Hospital .54 

Mills .81 

Trust and Safe Deposit Co.34 

Laurel Line. 25 

Library, public.^.21 

Lumber business. 69 

Manufacturing Industries. 65 


Manufacturing sites.38 

Merchants and Mechanics Bank.34 

Methodist Episcopal churches.60 

Moosic Powder Co.73 

Moses Taylor Hospital.55 

Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary.41 

Nay Aug Lumber Co.'ll 

New Industries.82 

Newspapers .62 

New York, Lake Erie & Western R. R. 31 

North Scranton Bank.37 


Officials of city government, duties, salaries, etc 

People’s Bank. 

Pennsylvania Central Brewing Co. 

Oral School for the Deaf. 

resources of. 

Periodicals . 

Philanthropic and Social Institutions. 

Police force. 

Post Office Building. 

Presbyterian churches. 

Public Library. 

Schools . 

Railroads . 

Real Estate. 

St. Luke’s Protestant Episcopal Church. 

Sauquoit Silk Mill. 

School of the Lackawanna... 

Schools, public. 

Scranton Brass Works. 

Col. George W. 

Conservatory of Music. 

Forging Co. . 

Gas and Water Co. 

Lace Curtain Co. 

Private Hospital. 

Railway Co. 

Republican . 

Savings Bank. 

Stove Works. 

Tribune .. 

Yarn and Finishing Co. 

Silk Industry. 

Slocum Brothers... 

South Side Bank. 

“Stourbridge Lion”. 


. . . .19 

.... 37 
. . . .76 
....44 
. . . . 9 
.... 62 
....45 
....20 
....21 
....60 
....21 
....22 

...23 

...38 

....61 
....78 
....44 
....22 
.. . .72 
10, 11 
. ...45 
.. . .71 
....88 
....81 
....56 
....90 
....63 
....34 
....72 
....63 
....82 
....78 
....10 
....37 
....29 


Third National Bank.34 

Thirteenth Regiment. 86 

Title Guarantee and Trust Co.37 

Traders National Bank.35 

Training Schools for Nurses.55, 56 


United States Court House and P. O. Building.21 

Van Dyke Piano Co.75 

West Side Bank.35 

Wholesale business. 84 

Young Men’s Christian Association.45 

Young Women’s Christian Association.52 



















































































































INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS 


Albright Memorial... 12 

American Locomotive Works. 65 

Armory . 11 

Barrisoale, W. J.43, 80 

Benore, John & Son. 70 

Bingham, George H. 72 

Board of Trade Building. 8 

Breschel, M. D. 92 

Brown, George W. 73 

Car Shops. D. L. & W. R. R. 23 

Chandler & Short. 84 

Clark, G. R. 95 

Consumers Ice Co. 79 

Country Club. 14 

Court House . 10 

Crane, L. D. 89 

Cusick, P. F. 99 


Davis, W. J. 93 

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R.22, 23 

Dickson Mill & Grain Co... 76 

Dime Deposit and Discount Bank. 37 ) 33 


Langon. John F. 80 

Laurel Line....:.25, 26, 27, 86 

Lee, John R., Quarries. 29 

Leonard, Thomas F. 83 

Linden, The.55, 58 

Locomotive, D. L. & W. R. R. 22 

Lord & Waterman. 75 

Maloney Oil & Manufacturing Co. 77 

McConnell & Co. 88 

Mercereau & Connell. 91 

Merchants & Mechanics Bank.33, 34, 35 

Monastery . 61 

Moses Taylor Hospital. 51 

Mosher, L. D. 93 

Mount St. Mary’s Seminary.40, 41, 42 

Moyer, Frank 1. 68 , 69 

Municipal Building. 10 

People’s Coal Co. 18 

Postoffice Building. 13 

Presbyterian Church, New First. 60 

Price & Howarth. 69 


Emanuel & Lee Ballast Co 


28 


Finch Manufacturing Co. 

First National Bank. 

First Presbyterian Church_ 

Friendless, The Home for the 
Fritz, G. W., Co. 


. 24 

30, 31, 32, 33 

.'.. 60 

.49, 50 

.85, 86 


Gerlock, F. H. & Co. 

Gerrecke, Residence of. 

Gilhool, W. E. 

Goldsmith Bros. 

Gordon Supply Co. 

Gorman, H. S. & Co. 

Guernsey, J. W. 

Gunster & Forsyth. 

Gymnasium Classes, Y. M. C. A 


. 62 

. 17 

. 73 

. 90 

. 82 

. 87 

. 96 

. 89 

46, 47, 48 


Hackett, W. T. 

High School. 

Home for the Friendless. 

Horses owned by Dr. J. L. Wentz 

Hotel Holland. 

Hotel Jermyn. 

Hotel Nash. 

Hotel Schadt. 

Howe & Stender. 

Howley, L. F. & M. T. 

Hug, Fred. 


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52, 53 
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International Correspondence Schools. 40 

Isaacs, Louis H. gg 

Kizer Mill & Elevator Co. 04 

Klotz Throwing Co. 78 

Koch, Victor. 

. o4 


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Reynolds, George F. 15 

Ripple, Col. E. H. 13 

Schadt, C. H . 52, 53 

Scheuer’s Bakery. 78 

Schlager, Charles. 16 

School Buildings.14, 40 

Schulte, B. W. 79 

Scranton House. 54 

Scranton Cold Storage & Warehouse Co. 74 

Scranton Monastery. 61 

Scranton Private Hospital. 50 

Scranton Savings Bank.36, 39 

Scranton Supply & Machinery Co.. 85 

Siegel’s Academy. 43 

Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument. 11 

Spiegel, Frank P. 81 

Stations, Laurel Line.26, 27 

Stipp, Peter.29, 40, 60 

Suburban Electric Light Co. 65 

Swift. McCrindle & Co. 83 

Traders Bank. 36 

Trancott, 1. 90 

Walsh & Co. 98 

Washburn, Williams & Co. ... C 7 

Watkins, George W.. 94 

Watres. L. A. 15 

Wentz, C. P. Co.. 77 

Wentz. Dr. J. L., Horses of.63, 64 

Wentz, Dr. J. L., Residence of.20, 21 

Williams, J. D. & Bros.58, 59 

Williams, J. J., Rosidence of. 19 

Wollkers & Beiiman.61, 74 


Lackawanna Laundry 


97 


Young Men's Christian Association 


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